[MCOMPILER-592] - IndexOutOfBoundsException when project.build.output…

[thijsrijpert]

…Timestamp is empty

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[thijsrijpert]

From JIRA issue:

Due to a combination of plugins, it is possible for the project.build.outputTimestamp property to have an empty string as a value. This causes an IndexOutOfBoundsException on line 1242 when it tries to access the first character in the string.

This can be fixed by doing an isEmpty check before doing the charAt check. I will create an PR for this.

While this bug is caused by another plugin, I think this should be fixed in the compiler because the error returned (IndexOutOfBoundsException), is vague and hard to debug.

The workaround for this issue is setting the project.build.outputTimestamp property with an arbitrary value.