Unable to launch SAM local from eclipse on CENTOS7

[cpandey05]

I installed AWS plugin for eclipse CENTOS 7 with SAM CLI, version 0.14.1. I am trying to debug a sample app from https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-sam-java-rest , but the debug launch fails with following error (This may be related to #104 but that is for other environment and was solved by setting some variables, so opening a new one here)

eclipse.buildId=4.5.2.M20160212-1500
java.version=1.8.0_131
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
com.amazonaws.eclipse.core.exceptions.AwsActionException
at com.amazonaws.eclipse.lambda.launching.SamLocalDelegate.launch(SamLocalDelegate.java:159)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:885)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:739)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin.buildAndLaunch(DebugUIPlugin.java:1039)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin$8.run(DebugUIPlugin.java:1256)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.amazonaws.eclipse.lambda.launching.SamLocalDelegate.buildSamLocalCommandLine(SamLocalDelegate.java:243)
at com.amazonaws.eclipse.lambda.launching.SamLocalDelegate.launch(SamLocalDelegate.java:105)
... 5 more

[zhangzhx]

Thanks for reporting this issue. It seems to be Eclipse Debugger has not been successfully launched.

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