Bug 7616

Summary:	NPE occurs if a null value is passed to the key attribute of <fmt-rt:message>
Product:	Taglibs	Reporter:	Ryan Lubke <Ryan.Lubke>
Component:	Standard Taglib	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Ryan Lubke 2002-03-29 19:48:44 UTC

Given:
  <fmt-rt:message key='<%= null %>'/>

Result:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.util.ListResourceBundle.handleGetObject(ListResourceBundle.java:109)
	at java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(ResourceBundle.java:308)
	at java.util.ResourceBundle.getString(ResourceBundle.java:274)
	at
org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.common.fmt.MessageSupport.doEndTag(MessageSupport.java:181)

Section 8.7 page 8-82, Null & Error Handling:
"If key is null or empty, the message is processed as if undefined, i.e., an
error message of form "??????" is written."

Comment 1 Jan Luehe 2002-04-01 20:18:58 UTC

Fixed.