Thanks Adam.

That was exactly my issue.

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On Jun 24, 2010 12:20 AM, "Adam Powell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The line reporting the NPE is implicitly unboxing the Boolean returned by
> your Map's get method to retrieve a primitive boolean value. If get
returns
> null it would have the behavior you describe.
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]
>wrote:
>
>> Hi, Mariano
>>
>> True, this is a Java question, not an Android question. SO it doesn't
>> r-e-a-l-l-y belong here. But in the interest of speeding you on your
>> way, I will make a couple observations I hope you will find helpful.
>>
>> 1) no, the NPE does not imply that isMarkAllReadPossibleCache is the
>> null variable. Rather, it implies that in the course of trying to
>> execute the get method of isMarkAllReadPossibleCache, the DVM
>> encountered a null pointer.
>>
>> 2) the NPE occurred during the call to UpdateButtons(), which in turn
>> took place during the call to the above get() method.
>>
>> 3) to tell in any more detail where it came from, I would need the
>> rest of your stack trace, which you chose not to show. But now you
>> have a better idea how to narrow this down by yourself, without
>> exposing the code to us, I hope.
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2:59 am, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hey guys.
>> >
>> > This is not an Android issue per-se, but I am puzzled about a Java
issue
>> and
>> > want to pick your brains.
>> >
>> > I recently got a couple of bug reports with a NPE that I don't
understand
>> > and can't reproduce myself. Here is an abbreviated representation of
the
>> > offending class. I tried to stay as close to the actual code as
possible.
>> >
>> > public class EntryManager {
>> >
>> > private static EntryManager instance;
>> > private Map<DBQuery, Boolean> isMarkAllReadPossibleCache;
>> >
>> > private EntryManager(Context ctx) {
>> > ..
>> > isMarkAllReadPossibleCache = new HashMap<DBQuery, Boolean>();
>> > ..
>> > }
>> >
>> > public static synchronized EntryManager getInstance(final Context
>> context)
>> > {
>> > if (instance == null)
>> > instance = new EntryManager(context.getApplicationContext());
>> > return instance;
>> > }
>> >
>> > void fireModelUpdated(final String atomId) {
>> > ..
>> > isMarkAllReadPossibleCache.clear();
>> > ..
>> > }
>> >
>> > public boolean isMarkAllReadPossible(final DBQuery dbq) {
>> > if (!isMarkAllReadPossibleCache.containsKey(dbq))
>> > isMarkAllReadPossibleCache.put(dbq,
>> > databaseHelper.isMarkAllReadPossible(dbq));
>> >
>> > return isMarkAllReadPossibleCache.get(dbq); <!-- NPE is raised
>> here
>> > }
>> > ..
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> > In the last line from above a NPE is thrown. So the instance variable
>> > isMarkAllReadPossibleCache must be null, right? But I don't see where
>> this
>> > could happen. It's initialized in the constructor and never set to null
>> > afterwards.
>> >
>> > For completeness here is a stack trace:
>> >
>> > java.lang.NullPointerException
>> > at
com.newsrob.EntryManager.isMarkAllReadPossible(EntryManager.java:1529)
>> > at
>> >
>>
com.newsrob.activities.AbstractNewsRobListActivity.shouldMarkAllReadButtonBeEnabled(AbstractNewsRobListActivity.java:327)
>> > at
>> >
>>
com.newsrob.activities.AbstractNewsRobListActivity.updateButtons(AbstractNewsRobListActivity.java:236)
>> > at
>> >
>>
com.newsrob.activities.AbstractNewsRobListActivity.access$2(AbstractNewsRobListActivity.java:215)
>> > <-- removed the private access modifier meanwhile
>> > at
>> >
>>
com.newsrob.activities.AbstractNewsRobListActivity$13.run(AbstractNewsRobListActivity.java:626)
>> > at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
>> > at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
>> > at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
>> > at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4203)
>> > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
>> > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
>> > at
>> >
>>
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:791)
>> > at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:549)
>> > at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Mariano
>>
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