GitHub user NickManley opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/117
LANG-1186 Fix NullPointerException in FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy
Java 8u60 has a change where `DateFormatSymbols.getZoneStrings` returns
arrays with 7 elements instead of 5 like it previously had. For some locales,
the additional two elements are null.
Example from the unit tests:
```
Running org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.597 sec
<<< FAILURE! - in
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest
testTimeZoneStrategyPattern(org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest)
Time elapsed: 0.597 sec <<< ERROR!
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy.<init>(FastDateParser.java:856)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.getLocaleSpecificStrategy(FastDateParser.java:647)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.getStrategy(FastDateParser.java:616)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.access$100(FastDateParser.java:74)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser$StrategyParser.letterPattern(FastDateParser.java:230)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser$StrategyParser.getNextStrategy(FastDateParser.java:214)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.init(FastDateParser.java:161)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.<init>(FastDateParser.java:147)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.<init>(FastDateParser.java:108)
at
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest.testTimeZoneStrategyPattern(FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest.java:31)
```
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Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/117.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
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This closes #117
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commit 5556026ed1dc17e70946a4a030842ade3a33baeb
Author: Nick Manley <[email protected]>
Date: 2015-11-20T05:24:05Z
Fix NullPointerException in FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy
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