Re: Null pointer in Cayenne 2.0.3 code

From: Alexander Lamb (dev) ("Alexander)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 02:42:04 EDT

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    > I see Andrus already replied a bit ...
    >
    > One thing I'd suggest doing when you go back and re-work it is to
    > not do:
    >
    > Expression q = Expression.fromString("patientPk = '" + pk + "'");
    >
    > This could cause you problems if your string value ever has single
    > quotes in it or other special characters. It is far better to use
    > bindings. A better pattern for strings (or just in general) would
    > look like:
    >
    > final Expression expression = Expression.fromString("patientPk =
    > $pk");
    > Map parameters = new HashMap(1);
    > parameters.put("pk", pk);
    > SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery(Patient.class,
    > expression.expWithParameters(parameters));
    > List items = dataContext.performQuery(query);
    >
    > By creating an expression with substitution parameters, Cayenne will
    > quote and escape text correctly for you. Of course, perhaps you
    > already know all of this and it was is just test code you were trying
    > to get to work. :-)

    Exactly... in desperation, you end up trying many different things!
    >
    > /dev/mrg
    >
    >
    > On 8/31/07, Alexander Lamb (dev) <alam..ac.com> wrote:
    >> Initially, it was a static method to fetch a Patient from the primary
    >> key (give the DataContext, the String, returns the Patient or null).
    >>
    >> Since whatever I was doing would crash Cayenne, I simply tried to do
    >> fetch all patients:
    >>
    >> Here is the function (will all my experiments commented out :-)
    >>
    >> Oviously, I simply want to fetch a Patient from his key (a varchar of
    >> approx. 35 characters).
    >>
    >> public static Patient patientWithPKInContext(String pk,
    >> DataContext
    >> dataContext) {
    >> //Expression q = ExpressionFactory.matchExp
    >> (Patient.BIRTH_CITY_PROPERTY,"Bitola");
    >> //Expression q = Expression.fromString("patientPk = '" +
    >> pk + "'");
    >> // Patient p = (Patient)DataObjectUtils.objectForPK
    >> (dataContext,
    >> "Patient", pk);
    >> //System.out.println("--- found object: " + p);
    >> //return p;
    >>
    >> // System.out.println("EXP:" + q.toString());
    >> // SelectQuery s = new SelectQuery(Patient.class,q);
    >> // List patients = dataContext.performQuery(s);
    >> SelectQuery allPatients = new SelectQuery(Patient.class);
    >> List patients = dataContext.performQuery(allPatients);
    >>
    >> if(patients.size() == 0)
    >> return null;
    >> else
    >> return (Patient)patients.get(0);
    >>
    >> }
    >>
    >> Le 31 août 07 à 17:07, Michael Gentry a écrit :
    >>
    >>> Hi Alex,
    >>>
    >>> I'm curious as to why:
    >>>
    >>> at ch.rodano.msbase.model.Patient.patientWithPKInContext
    >>> (Patient.java:30)
    >>>
    >>> is in your stack trace? What does that method do?
    >>>
    >>> Thanks,
    >>>
    >>> /dev/mrg
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> On 8/31/07, Alexander Lamb (dev) <alam..ac.com> wrote:
    >>>> Hello list,
    >>>>
    >>>> We are experimenting a Cayenne crash and wondering how to get
    >>>> around it.
    >>>>
    >>>> Here is the place of the crash:
    >>>>
    >>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
    >>>> at org.apache.cayenne.query.BaseQueryMetadata.resolve
    >>>> (BaseQueryMetadata.java:97)
    >>>> at org.apache.cayenne.query.SelectQuery.getMetaData
    >>>> (SelectQuery.java:
    >>>> 151)
    >>>> at org.apache.cayenne.util.ObjectContextQueryAction.<init>
    >>>> (ObjectContextQueryAction.java:69)
    >>>> at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContextQueryAction.<init>
    >>>> (DataContextQueryAction.java:46)
    >>>> at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.onQuery
    >>>> (DataContext.java:1387)
    >>>> at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.performQuery
    >>>> (DataContext.java:1376)
    >>>> at ch.rodano.msbase.model.Patient.patientWithPKInContext
    >>>> (Patient.java:30)
    >>>>
    >>>> I am not certain how to check the line were it crashed (looking at
    >>>> the code repository on-line does not probably garantee the line
    >>>> number is the same).
    >>>>
    >>>> We are simply trying to get a list of objects:
    >>>>
    >>>> SelectQuery allPatients = new SelectQuery(Patient.class);
    >>>> List patients = dataContext.performQuery(allPatients);
    >>>>
    >>>> Probably something is wrong with our model, but what? How to find
    >>>> out?
    >>>> The only different thing we did (which we did already
    >>>> previously) is
    >>>> that the primary key for Patient is a varchar (String) and is not
    >>>> hidden in the Java Class.
    >>>>
    >>>> Thanks for any hints (we regenerated everyting, etc... always the
    >>>> same crash)
    >>>>
    >>>> Alex
    >>
    >>



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