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I have following servlet to add items into cart -


One item gets added to the cart successfully. When adding the second item it gives a Null Pointer Exception at line 53

cart.add(item);

Can anyone please help me out with the problem.
 
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Your NullPointerException is because 'cart' is null on this line:

To simplify things, let's just look at the code that deals with the 'cart' variable:

Can you see under what scenario 'cart' will be null?
 
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And, welcome to the Ranch!
 
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Thanks Tim.

Do I have to add cart = session.getAttribute("cart"); before cart.add(item);

 
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Yes, you got it.

But... I wouldn't do it inside that if statement because you're going to run into the same NullPointerException when your action equals "2". I suggest doing it close to where you are doing the null check on the session attribute. Like so:
 
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Thanks again. This time for quick replies.

I will try it. I will update the post after trying.
 
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Incidentally, this is poor design. It violates the http specifications. Decide which method you are going to use and let the other one throw a 405 Method Not Allowed error. Or if you want to use both methods in the same servlet (opinions vary here) then they should do distinctly different operations in keeping with the spec. Use GET to retrieve data (idempotent) and POST to submit data that will change the state of the application such as adding records to a database or items to a shopping cart (non idempotent).


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Thanks Kevin for your suggestion.

It does not give me any exception any more after the change. But it increments the quantity of the product added in the cart on browser refresh. How solve this issue?
 
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That's because you're using a GET request for adding things to the cart. You have a URL such as:
<your-server>/cart?act=1&productId=47&productName=PlushMoose&mrp=100&qty=3

Every time you submit that URL, you will put something in the cart.

A solution is to submit a POST request instead. Which brings us round nicely to what Kevin said yesterday, that you should use GET to retrieve data and POST to submit data, where submitting data is what you're doing in this case.

(Side note: Having the item price in the request is a bad idea. I could modify the request to put any price I want in there and you don't want people to be able to do that)
 
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This is my JSP code to add item in the cart
 
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... and ... what's your question?
 
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Ohh...
I am not using GET method. I am using POST method with some hidden to pass to Servlet. Why does it increment the quantity of the added product in the cart?
 
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After you have submitted your form to add an item into the cart, what do you have in the browser address bar?
 
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The address bar has something like bellow as you mentioned.

<your-server>/cart?act=1&productId=47&productName=PlushMoose&mrp=100&qty=3

Should I use JavaBean to pass parameter values to servlet instead of hidden field? Should it solve the issue?
 
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I do not have your code running so cannot verify, but this looks suspicious:

Did you mean:
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Yes, you are right.
displayProducts.jsp displays all the products from selected category of products retrieved from database. here "cid" means category id. products are retrieved from database every time displayProduct.jsp is loaded.

is there anything wrong with this?
 
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Does that change resolve your refresh form submission problem?
 
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i gotta test it. i will update the post after testing. thanks.
it was a great help and support from you Tim.
 
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