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Sergey Beryozkin commented on ARIES-847: ---------------------------------------- Check for 'null' is redundant. Instanceof will always return false if a left operand is null. I don't have a reference to the relevant JVM section to prove it :-), but it is true. Similarly, the string concatenation would convert a null object to 'null. > Nullpointer exception in > org.apache.aries.blueprint.container.BeanRecipe.destroy > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARIES-847 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-847 > Project: Aries > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Blueprint > Affects Versions: 0.4 > Reporter: Christian Schneider > Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin > Fix For: 0.4 > > Attachments: aries-847-1.patch > > > If the blueprint file contains an error the obj given to destroy may be null. > Currently this is not handled. The big problem in this case is that the user > does not get a good error message about his error in the context. > I will add a patch with the check. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira