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Bug 34156 - NPE From Registry API
Summary: NPE From Registry API
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: -- Other -- (show other bugs)
Version: 4.x
Hardware: PC All
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: David Konecny
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Reported: 2003-06-04 16:19 UTC by Petr Hrebejk
Modified: 2008-12-22 17:47 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Petr Hrebejk 2003-06-04 16:19:43 UTC 
When the undelying filesystem fires Attribute
change with the attrName
set to null. Registry API will throw NPE. This
shouldn't happen as
the FS doc allows to fire such events. Registry
API should handle this
case gracefully.

java.lang.NullPointerException at
org.netbeans.core.registry.Listener.fileAttributeChanged(Listener.java:60)
Comment 1 David Konecny 2003-06-04 16:48:41 UTC 
Did not know that attrName can be null. I will fix it tomorrow.
Comment 2 David Konecny 2003-06-05 10:04:37 UTC 
Fixed in:

Checking in openide/registry/manifest.mf;
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2
Checking in openide/registry/api/apichanges.xml;
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2
Checking in
openide/registry/src/org/netbeans/api/registry/AttributeEvent.java
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
Checking in
openide/registry/src/org/netbeans/api/registry/BindingEvent.java;
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
Checking in core/registry/src/org/netbeans/core/registry/Listener.java;
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
Comment 3 pzajac 2003-11-11 10:21:22 UTC 
David,please create unit. It should be simple.
Comment 4 pzajac 2003-11-11 10:22:11 UTC 
David,please create unit test.
Comment 5 David Konecny 2003-11-12 09:08:14 UTC 
Good point, but will not have time to work on Registry for couple of
weeks.
Comment 6 Jan Chalupa 2004-03-03 18:51:32 UTC 
Promo D isssue I guess.
Comment 7 Marian Mirilovic 2005-07-15 07:49:43 UTC 
closed