----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick O. Thurman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Post all your questions about iText here'"
<itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] what causes the NullPointerException
>I thought that the statement
> PdfWriter.getInstance(document, blob.getBinaryOutputStream());
> Would populate the blob object with the generated pdf data.
>
> What would be the required changes?
>
No idea. It's specific to your application and has nothing to do with iText.
Paulo
> Pat
>
>
>>The variable blob is never assigned a value.
>
> Paulo
>
>
>> What causes the NullPointerException and why does it happen in the
>> following
>> code? What are some solutions?
>>
>>
>> import com.lowagie.text.Document;
>> import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
>> import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
>> import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;
>> import java.sql.SQLException;
>> import oracle.sql.BLOB;
>> import java.io.FileOutputStream;
>> import java.io.IOException;
>>
>> public class HelloWorld {
>>
>> public static BLOB doIt(oracle.sql.ARRAY args) {
>>
>> System.out.println("Hello World");
>> BLOB blob = null;
>> Document document = new Document();
>> try {
>> PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
>> blob.getBinaryOutputStream());
>> document.open();
>> document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World"));
>> } catch (DocumentException de) {
>> System.err.println(de.getMessage());
>> } catch (SQLException se) {
>> System.err.println(se.getMessage());
>> }
>> document.close();
>> return(blob);
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Pat,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick O. Thurman
>> Stephen F. Austin State University
>> Information Technology Services
>> Data Base Administrator
>> Phone: (936) 468-1074
>> Fax: (936) 468-1117
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