ALPHA: unable to list components from default devfile registry

[kadel]

using odo alpha1

▶ odo version
odo v2.0.0-alpha (8b213dc09)

Trying to run odo as a first time user. So I deleted ~/.odo

▶ rm -r ~/.odo

Now when I try to list components from registry I get an error as no registry is configured.
If there is no registry configured in preference.yaml odo should automatically use our public default registry github.com/odo-devfiles/registry

▶ odo catalog list components
 ⚠  Please run 'odo registry add <registry name> <registry URL>' to add registry for listing devfile components

/kind bug
/area registry
/priority high

[johnmcollier]

Similar to this, when there's no preferences file, odo registry list panics:

Johns-MacBook-Pro-3:odo johncollier$ odov2 registry list
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x8 pc=0x241688a]

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/openshift/odo/pkg/odo/cli/registry.(*ListOptions).Run(0x3c43808, 0x0, 0x0)
	/home/wikus/syncthing/files/dev/go/src/github.com/openshift/odo/pkg/odo/cli/registry/list.go:58 +0x5a
github.com/openshift/odo/pkg/odo/genericclioptions.GenericRun(0x2bbb080, 0x3c43808, 0xc00065c780, 0x3c43808, 0x0, 0x0)
	/home/wikus/syncthing/files/dev/go/src/github.com/openshift/odo/pkg/odo/genericclioptions/runnable.go:31 +0x13c
github.com/openshift/odo/pkg/odo/cli/registry.NewCmdList.func1(0xc00065c780, 0x3c43808, 0x0, 0x0)
	/home/wikus/syncthing/files/dev/go/src/github.com/openshift/odo/pkg/odo/cli/registry/list.go:92 +0x5e
github.com/openshift/odo/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xc00065c780, 0x3c43808, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc00065c780, 0x3c43808)
	/home/wikus/syncthing/files/dev/go/src/github.com/openshift/odo/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:830 +0x2aa
github.com/openshift/odo/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xc000172280, 0x29ac5b0, 0xc00015c480, 0x2)
	/home/wikus/syncthing/files/dev/go/src/github.com/openshift/odo/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:914 +0x2fb
github.com/openshift/odo/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
	/home/wikus/syncthing/files/dev/go/src/github.com/openshift/odo/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:864
main.main()
	/home/wikus/syncthing/files/dev/go/src/github.com/openshift/odo/cmd/odo/odo.go:67 +0x330

What's interesting is that there's still some checks for experimental mode in the alpha branch, when the preferences file is initialized:

https://github.com/openshift/odo/blob/cea3b23f32b19b39cde7b458c742d447c37b55f4/pkg/preference/preference.go#L229

[johnmcollier]

The commit here: johnmcollier@274acb7 fixes things for me

Believe @cdrage was gonna pull it into his PR #3705

[kadel]

fixed in alpha-2 release
/close

[openshift-ci-robot]

@kadel: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

fixed in alpha-2 release
/close

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