Re: Bogus NullPointerExceptions
Twisted wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
The fact that directory X is under directory Y does not guarantee that
all File objects for X have Y as a getParentFile ancestor.
It should, as long as X is genuinely under Y rather than some kind of
shortcut to X being under Y. In this particular application, is
certainly is under Y (it was reached by traversal from Y to begin
with).
That should work.
Anyway it does seem to have been a concurrency issue -- synchronizing
on baseDir (which is app global and unchanging) at several key spots in
the code made the NPEs go away.
I would still try to nail down what is really happening, because adding
arbitrary synchronization can make a program work more often, without
fixing the underlying problem.
The implication is that baseDir is changing, although you thought it was
fixed, which is disturbing.
Alternatively, there could be an initialization problem, if dir is being
calculated in a different thread from the NPE.
Patricia
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