Re: Question about the deleteObject call of DataContext

From: Mike Kienenberger (mkienen..laska.net)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 20:29:48 EST

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    Joshua Pyle <joshua.t.pyl..mail.com> wrote:
    > I passed a null value to the deleteObject call of DataContext and got
    > the following.
    >
    > CauseCd causeCdToDelete = null;
    > this.dbContext.deleteObject(causeCdToDelete);
    >
    > Gave me.....
    >
    > java.lang.NullPointerException
    > at
    org.objectstyle.cayenne.access.DataContext.deleteObject(DataContext.java:1008)
    > at
    com.ray.rms.it.esolutions.mla.Model.test.deleteCauseCdExample(test.java:206)
    > at com.ray.rms.it.esolutions.mla.Model.test.main(test.java:41)
    >
    > Its an easy work around but I was curious if others have seen this.
    > Intuitively I would think that deleteObject would just ignore a null
    > value.

    There's no valid use case to delete a null object.
    Thus, if you're doing it, it's an error. So it throws a
    NullPointerException.

    -Mike

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