Null Pointer Exception: null error [duplicate]
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I have this Hash Set code and when I try to run my compile method on it I get the Null Pointer Exception: null error on it. Here is the code:
private void initKeywords() {
keywords = new HashSet<String>();
keywords.add("final");
keywords.add("int");
keywords.add("while");
keywords.add("if");
keywords.add("else");
keywords.add("print");
}
private boolean isIdent(String t) {
if (keywords.contains(t)) { ***//This is the line I get the Error***
return false;
}
else if (t != null && t.length() > 0 && Character.isLetter(t.charAt(0))) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
The other lines that goes along with this error is:
public void compileProgram() {
System.out.println("compiling " + filename);
while (theToken != null) {
if (equals(theToken, "int") || equals(theToken, "final")) {
compileDeclaration(true);
} else {
compileFunction(); //This line is giving an error with the above error
}
}
cs.emit(Machine.HALT);
isCompiled = true;
}
private void compileFunction() {
String fname = theToken;
int entryPoint = cs.getPos();
if (equals(fname, "main")) {
cs.setEntry(entryPoint);
}
if (isIdent(theToken)) theToken = t.token(); ***//This line is giving an error***
else t.error("expecting identifier, got " + theToken);
symTable.allocProc(fname,entryPoint);
accept("(");
compileParamList();
accept(")");
compileCompound(true);
if (equals(fname, "main")) cs.emit(Machine.HALT);
else cs.emit(Machine.RET);
}
Solution
Either keywords
or t
is null. Using either a debugger or print statements it should be pretty simple to determine. If keywords
is null, I'd assume that initKeywords()
has not been called yet.
OTHER TIPS
Are you sure you're running initKeywords()
before isIdent()
?
You probably want to call initKeywords
from the constructor of this object.
I personally try to stay away from init methods. As previously mentioned, a constructor serves as an initializer, and so does the static block:
private final static Set<String> KEYWORDS = new HashSet<String>();
static {
keywords.add("final");
keywords.add("int");
keywords.add("while");
keywords.add("if");
keywords.add("else");
keywords.add("print");
}