Just in case it matters I'm using the i-net Software SPRINTA type 4 JDBC
driver...
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John Minadeo
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> From: John Minadeo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 2:49 AM
> To: JRun-Talk
> Subject: RE: Caching...
>
>
> Well, it would seem it isn't a caching problem at all but a
> caught exception
> which isn't printing a stack trace. Though I'm guessing it is
> because it is
> within a <%! (declare) block so it doesn't have access to out (yes?)
>
> At any rate this line is what is throwing a
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> (beware word wrap) :
>
> configValue.replace(0, configValue.capacity(),
> rs.getString("con_Value"));
>
> configValue is a StringBuffer. It has to be the
> rs.getString("con_Value")
> part. I've tried assigning rs.getObject("con_Value") to an
> object but when I
> test the new filled Object with Object.equals(null) I get a
> NullPointerException error again, though I suspect it is
> because the Object
> gets set to null and is then not an object, but I'm new to
> java so I'm just
> guessing. The con_Value in this case is indeed null in the
> SQL server 7 DB.
>
> The damned thing is, I have a test page which connects to the
> same db and
> renders a table from the resultset and it's metadata complete
> with column
> names and the word null when a value is null and it is retrieving and
> printing that table cells like:
>
> for(int j=1; j<=rs.getMetaData().getColumnCount(); j++){
> out.println("<td>" + rs.getObject(j) + "</td>");
> }
>
> My point being that null gets outputted then but I can never
> get those 4
> characters as a string without getting a NullPointerException
> when I try to
> get the value in any way...
>
> Help?!?
>
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> John Minadeo
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