Benerator with mysql: using Mysql id auto-increment
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starting with Benerator (0.7.7), I encounter some problems while trying to generate data for a test-table for  a Mysql 5.5. database.

The benerator script ist: benerator_2.xml


    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <setup xmlns="http://databene.org/benerator/0.7.7"
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xsi:schemaLocation="http://databene.org/benerator/0.7.7 benerator-0.7.7.xsd"
            defaultEncoding="Cp1252"
            defaultDataset="DE"
            defaultLocale="de_DE"
            defaultLineSeparator="\r\n">
    
    		
    <import defaults="true"/>
    <import domains="person"/>
    <import domains="address"/>
     <import platforms="db" />
     
    	<comment>
    		 Populates a database
    	</comment>
    	 
        <comment>defining a database that will be referred by the id 'db' later</comment>
        <database id="db"
            url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/benerator"
            driver="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
            catalog="benerator"
            user="root"
            password="Arthur"/>
    
    
    	<execute target="db">
    		drop table if exists customer;
    	</execute>
    
    	<bean id="sg" class="SequenceTableGenerator">
    	<property name="database" ref="db"/>
    	<property name="table" value="MY_TABLE"/>
    	<property name="column" value="SEQ_VALUE"/>
    	</bean>	
    	<execute target="db">
    		create table customer (
    			id bigint  null auto_increment,
    			name varchar(255),
    			pword varchar(20),
    			address varchar(100),
    			phone varchar(20),
    			primary key (id)
    		);
    	</execute>
    
    <generate type="testtable" consumer="db,ConsoleExporter" count="1000">
    		<id name="id" mode="ignored" />
    
    		<variable name="person" generator="PersonGenerator"  locale="${locale}"/>
    		<variable name="address" generator="AddressGenerator" />	
    		<attribute name="n" min="1" max="42" distribution="cumulated"/>
        <attribute name="name" script="{ftl:${person.givenName} ${person.familyName}}" />
        <attribute name="pword" pattern="[A-Za-z0-9]{8,12}" />
        <attribute name="address" script="{ftl:${address.street} ${address.houseNumber} ${address.city} ${address.country} ${address.postalCode} }" />
        <attribute name="phone" script="{ftl:${address.mobilePhone}}" />
    </generate>
    
    </setup>
     

as seen, the primary Key of the table , the id is declare to be auto generated:
 

        id bigint  null auto_increment,
        ....
       primary key (id)

in order to tell Benerator to let ignore field 'id', I set  

    <id name="id" mode="ignored" />


and the generating command line is:

    benerator benerator_2.xml


here is the output:


    17:47:02,823 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] Running file benerator_2.xml
    17:47:02,825 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] Benerator 0.7.7 build 2164
    17:47:02,827 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] Java version 1.6.0_23
    17:47:02,827 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] JVM Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 19.0-b0
    9 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
    17:47:02,828 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] OS Windows 7 6.1 (amd64)
    17:47:02,828 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] Installed JSR 223 Script Engines:
    17:47:02,906 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] - Mozilla Rhino[js, rhino, JavaScript, javasc
    ript, ECMAScript, ecmascript]
    17:47:02,906 INFO  (main) [CONFIG] Max heap size: 853 MB
    17:47:02,959 DEBUG (main) [CONFIG] Initializing Script mapping from file org/dat
    abene/script/script.properties
    17:47:04,012 DEBUG (main) [COMMENT] Populates a database
    17:47:04,019 DEBUG (main) [COMMENT] defining a database that will be referred by
     the id 'db' later
    17:47:04,059 INFO  (main) [EvaluateStatement] Executing inline script
    17:47:06,622 INFO  (main) [JDBC] Connected to MySQL 5.5.16
    17:47:06,622 INFO  (main) [JDBC] Using driver MySQL-AB JDBC Driver mysql-connect
    or-java-5.1.12 ( Revision: ${bzr.revision-id} )
    17:47:06,624 INFO  (main) [JDBC] JDBC version 3.0
    17:47:07,530 INFO  (main) [EvaluateStatement] Executing inline script
    17:47:08,492 INFO  (main) [JDBCDBImporter] Importing tables from ___temp
    17:47:08,578 INFO  (main) [DBSystem] Fetching table details and ordering tables
    by dependency
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
            at org.databene.benerator.composite.AbstractGeneratorComponent.init(Abst
    ractGeneratorComponent.java:65)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.GenerateAndConsumeTask.initSt
    atements(GenerateAndConsumeTask.java:269)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.GenerateAndConsumeTask.init(G
    enerateAndConsumeTask.java:119)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.GenerateOrIterateStatement.be
    Initialized(GenerateOrIterateStatement.java:165)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.GenerateOrIterateStatement.ex
    ecute(GenerateOrIterateStatement.java:106)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.LazyStatement.execute(LazySta
    tement.java:58)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.StatementProxy.execute(Statem
    entProxy.java:45)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.TimedGeneratorStatement.execu
    te(TimedGeneratorStatement.java:66)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.SequentialStatement.executeSu
    bStatements(SequentialStatement.java:51)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.statement.SequentialStatement.execute(S
    equentialStatement.java:46)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.BeneratorRootStatement.execute(Benerato
    rRootStatement.java:63)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.DescriptorRunner.execute(DescriptorRunn
    er.java:135)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.DescriptorRunner.runWithoutShutdownHook
    (DescriptorRunner.java:116)
            at org.databene.benerator.engine.DescriptorRunner.run(DescriptorRunner.j
    ava:109)
            at org.databene.benerator.main.Benerator.runFile(Benerator.java:88)
            at org.databene.benerator.main.Benerator.runFromCommandLine(Benerator.ja
    va:76)
            at org.databene.benerator.main.Benerator.main(Benerator.java:69)

so where is the problem ?
thanks in advance