Please help with NullPointerException

[midani]

Hello I have been going over a nasty NullPointerException for the past day or so. I am really stumped.

Any help would be appreciated. This is the servlet Context.java in the lib folder of my dynamic java application.

It doesn't seem to matter if I set the following:

if (getDisplayLifeReviewForHome( agt ).equals( TRUE ))
if (getDisplayLifeReviewForHome( agt ).equals( FALSE ))

I get the same error every single time no matter what.

The code is this:

void getDisplayLifeReviewForHome() {
    	System.err.println ("Can't Find Display Life Review for Home !!! " );
    	
	}
    
    void getDisplayLifeReviewForUser() {
    	System.err.println ("Can't Find Display Life Review for User !!! " );
    	
	}
    
    public String getDisplayLifeReviewForUser( BcSQLAgent agt ) throws Exception
    {
      if (getDisplayLifeReviewForHome( agt ).equals( TRUE )) 
      {
        if (_displayLifeReviewForUser == null) 
        {
          _loadUserValues( agt );
        }
        return _displayLifeReviewForUser;
      }
      else 
      {
        return FALSE;
      }
    }  // getDisplayLifeReviewForUser()

[kammce]

Well, i do not believe you have given us enough information about this problem. This is more like a new to java problem, but whatevs.

Alright,

1. getDisplayLifeReviewForHome() does not take arguements.
2. getDisplayLifeReviewForHome() does not return a value.
3. I have no idea what type the variable _displayLifeReviewForUser is.
4. from your current track record, does the method _loadUserValues( agt ); actually take arguments?
5. if _displayLifeReviewForUser; is a string, you should not be using ==. you should be using _displayLifeReviewForUser.equals("") || _displayLifeReviewForUser.isEmpty() || _displayLifeReviewForUser.trim().isEmpty() or something along those lines.
6. edit: forgot. return FALSE;... shouldn't it be return "FALSE"; since you are returning a string.
   
   Lastly, what are you runtime errors. Where is the nullPointerException? why haven't you written a try {} catch(nullPointerException e) { } after see the nullPointerEXception?

[Tolls]

No point sticking in a try/catch in there unless somewhere higher up the chain they aren't logging the exception properly (complete with stack trace).
You generally shouldn't be trying to catch NPEs, as they're usually an error in the code and catching them may well result in that error being hidden.

[BLuFeNiX]

You code shows a lack of Java fundamentals. If you post the entire code, we can try to help you get it into working order, but as it is, your code is indecipherable. I can already see 6 different ways to interpret what you want to do. What, over all, are you trying to accomplish?