A user found a bug in the data provider code that prevented their dataproviders from loading. The bug was related to the accidental storage of an empty password in their preferences, leading to a decryption error. This unhandled exception cascaded up the call stack and prevented the further loading of the remaining data providers.

ERROR: igb (31): [PrefsLoader(39)] The activate method has thrown an exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: encrypted string was null or empty
at com.affymetrix.genometry.util.StringEncrypter.decrypt(StringEncrypter.java:98)
at com.affymetrix.genometry.data.BaseDataProvider.lambda$loadPersistedConfiguration$18(BaseDataProvider.java:69)
at java.util.Optional.ifPresent(Optional.java:159)
at com.affymetrix.genometry.data.BaseDataProvider.loadPersistedConfiguration(BaseDataProvider.java:69)
at com.affymetrix.genometry.data.BaseDataProvider.<init>(BaseDataProvider.java:49)
at com.lorainelab.quickload.QuickloadDataProvider.<init>(QuickloadDataProvider.java:61)
at com.lorainelab.quickload.QuickloadFactory.createDataProvider(QuickloadFactory.java:39)
at com.affymetrix.igb.general.DataProviderManager.lambda$initializeDataProvider$12(DataProviderManager.java:192)
at java.util.Optional.ifPresent(Optional.java:159)
at com.affymetrix.igb.general.DataProviderManager.initializeDataProvider(DataProviderManager.java:189)
at java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(ForEachOps.java:184)
at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:193)
at java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.forEachRemaining(Spliterators.java:948)
at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:481)
at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:471)
at java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:151)
at java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:174)
at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:418)
at com.affymetrix.igb.prefs.IgbPreferencesLoadingOrchestrator.loadFromPersistenceStorage(IgbPreferencesLoadingOrchestrator.java:102)
at com.affymetrix.igb.prefs.IgbPreferencesLoadingOrchestrator.loadIGBPrefs(IgbPreferencesLoadingOrchestrator.java:72)
at com.affymetrix.igb.prefs.IgbPreferencesLoadingOrchestrator.activate(IgbPreferencesLoadingOrchestrator.java:50)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.invokeMethod(BaseMethod.java:231)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.access$500(BaseMethod.java:39)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod$Resolved.invoke(BaseMethod.java:624)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.invoke(BaseMethod.java:508)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.ActivateMethod.invoke(ActivateMethod.java:149)
at