Extracting Keys from Hashtable fails

[Okay123]

Hello!

To cut a long story short:

I'm trying to iterate through an hashtable and therefore i want to extract the keys of it.

But both...

Set<String> set = hashtable.keySet();

and

Enumeration e = hashtable.keys();

fail in a very strange way. My program doesn't crash oder something like that (started in eclipse btw.), I just get the following errormessage on the console.
Maybe it has something to do with Swing? I cannot reproduce the error in a console app, but I only tried it once, so don't pay too much attention on this hint.

The error:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at Feed.addItems(Feed.java:32)
at Gui.update(Gui.java:204)
at Gui.access$0(Gui.java:170)
at Gui$2.actionPerformed(Gui.java:53)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unk nown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed (Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed (Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseRe leased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent( Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(U nknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unkno wn Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilter s(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(U nknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

By the way, "at Feed.addItems(Feed.java:32)", this is the position of keys()/keyset() in my code.


Thank you!

[JosAH]

Look carefully at line #32 of your Feed class; there's an object there that is null while it shouldn't be and your code is dereferencing it.

kind regards,

Jos

[Okay123]

I lost sight of the forest for the trees, thank you!

[personal]

this one is hard to debug just from your code and stack trace. try extracting your code out to a small program, run it again and see if that fails. best guess is that its not a problem with iterating through the ketset but a concurrent problem thats masking the issue

[Tolls]

I wouldn't say it's hard to debug.
The NPE is occurring on those lines, so something (as Jos says) in those lines is null and being dereferenced.

And there's only one thing that can be.