Can you file a bug in our issues tracker? We should try to throw a more useful exception or throw the same error locally in the development server:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, hector <[email protected]> wrote: > I figured out the problem. Setting a null value in a request header > will cause this exception. Not sure if this should be the expected > behavior, since its hard to tell where the null pointer is coming > from. > > On Apr 23, 5:29 pm, hector <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm sometimes getting a NullPointerException when using the > > URLFetchService to a web service running on another appspot. In these > > cases the request does not show up in the other appspot's logs. > > > > If I make this request from the command-line, it works fine and I can > > see the request in the logs. > > > > I'm also using the URLFetchService to access other web services NOT > > running on appspot, and those are working fine. > > > > This exception was happening yesterday, then magically went away. Now > > its showing up again. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > at > com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.URLFetchServicePb$URLFetchRequest > > $Header$Builder.setValue(URLFetchServicePb.java:756) > > at > > > com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.URLFetchServiceImpl.convertToPb(URLFetchServiceImpl.java: > > 147) > > at > > > com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.URLFetchServiceImpl.fetch(URLFetchServiceImpl.java: > > 30) > > at > > > org.systemsbiology.addama.coresvcs.gae.filters.CheckAccessFilter.doFilter(CheckAccessFilter.java: > > 68) > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Relations, Google App Engine Twitter: http://twitter.com/ikai Delicious: http://delicious.com/ikailan ---------------- Google App Engine links: Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
