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J miao
Greenhorn
Joined: Apr 16, 2008
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I am coding the "Assignment OOP-4 (Lookup)", Can you anyone help me to debug NullpointerException? I think I am confuse how to use HashMap.
Following are my main class and look class code, Please I have the abstract class Thing constructed.
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[ April 16, 2008: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]
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Marilyn de Queiroz
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Joined: Jul 22, 2000
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hi J
Welcome to JavaRanch
Unfortunately, we don't allow code to be posted in this forum ... only pseudocode.
It would be more helpful, however, if you copy and paste the exact error message you are receiving instead of the code.
Remember that when you construct a new HashMap the contents are still null (similar to when you construct an array). So when you construct the HashMap all the keys and all the values are null until you put something in it.
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Marilyn de Queiroz
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The other thing to remember is that if you do a get() on a HashMap and the key is not found, you will get a null.
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J miao
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Joined: Apr 16, 2008
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Thank you very much for your help! I resolved my issue. HashMap get() was cause of NullPointerException. Method asks for INT parameter but I pass something else.
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