Running the target 'grails codenarc' on the central build server produces as expected a codenarc XML file with violations of coding conventions (see attached file).

However, the post build task 'Report Violations' fails to parse the XML file. In the build log I see the following NPE trace:

ERROR: Publisher hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsPublisher aborted due to exception
hudson.util.IOException2: Cannot parse ipb-grails/CodeNarc-Report.xml
at hudson.plugins.violations.parse.AbstractTypeParser.parse(AbstractTypeParser.java:64)
at hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsCollector.doType(ViolationsCollector.java:189)
at hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsCollector.invoke(ViolationsCollector.java:116)
at hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsCollector.invoke(ViolationsCollector.java:27)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:756)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:738)
at hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsPublisher.perform(ViolationsPublisher.java:74)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:36)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:649)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:625)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:603)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:161)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:572)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1386)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.plugins.violations.model.Violation.compareTo(Violation.java:192)
at hudson.plugins.violations.model.Violation.compareTo(Violation.java:8)
at java.util.TreeMap.put(TreeMap.java:562)
at java.util.TreeSet.add(TreeSet.java:255)
at hudson.plugins.violations.model.FullFileModel.addViolation(FullFileModel.java:24)
at hudson.plugins.violations.types.codenarc.CodenarcParser.parseFileElement(CodenarcParser.java:90)
at hudson.plugins.violations.types.codenarc.CodenarcParser.execute(CodenarcParser.java:47)
at hudson.plugins.violations.parse.AbstractTypeParser.parse(AbstractTypeParser.java:59)
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