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I have a jsf application in which on the first page, the user is allowed to select a file. In the action of that component
the selected file is set in the request as an attribute, and the page is redirected to a servlet. In the servlet,
i do a request.getAttribute for the file name. But I am getting a npe when the servlet tries to access the filename.
Can someone tell me what I am missing. The web.xml servlet mapping does not have any attribute. I thought
the mapping was only for context params and init params.
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please post the code of your servlet .

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please post the stacktrace too then may be we can help here.

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maybe it has something to do with the way I am redirecting?

 
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hello sonia ,
i think i can't give you a good suggestion for this problem. just wait for sometime , perhaps somebody else will guide you about this.
my apology

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So what's on line 60?
 
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Are you sure you have this attribute set before this call? If not change this to request.getParameter("selected")

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To answer your question

What is on line 60

:
I changed my code so I am not sure what was on line 60 but I think it was:



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Is it working now?
 
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no; i am not sure what you mean. if i set an attribute how can i get a parameter?
 
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Attributes and parameters have nothing whatsoever to do with one another.

A call to getParameter cannot create an NPE. Until you find out what line is causing the issue, abandon all hope of solving this.
 
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Do you have the file in the specified path?
 
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Srikkanth Mohanasundaram wrote:

Do you have the file in the specified path?



i think unavailability of file can't lead to a NullPointerException here.

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Yes you are right
 
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I did not know where it was looking for the file, so I made the following change to the servlet code:




Now I get the following error: here is the stacktrace
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Yeah you have a very descriptive error trace now.
 
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yes, but the file is there in that location. WHere is it looking? It should be looking in
c:/downloads/

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It *is* looking there, for a file named "null".

Is there a file named "null" there?
 
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Notice that the request.getAttribute("selected") is returning a null.
THat is why it is looking for a file named null.

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Sonia
 
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