Re: NPE in PriorityQueue.poll()
Twisted wrote:
Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
This would surprise me somewhat.
Either: the poll-attempt breaks with an exception and the queue
remains unchanged, then why would the next attempt at poll()
suddenly work again?
Or: Some object is actually removed: then this object will
never be handled.
Its's hard to believe that this is not more than a minor nuissance
in the application.
Since the queue isn't being rendered unusable and the console isn't
being spammed with dozens in a row, it seems that some object is
actually removed -- the null. If the null remained in the queue for any
length of time, then yes there's be more than a minor nuisance.
Fortunately that does not seem to be happening.
Did I mention that I never saw NPEs here before updating to 1.6.0?
That is consistent with either of two theories:
1. A bug in the 1.6 implementation of PriorityQueue that does not exist
in the 1.5 version.
2. A bug in your code that does not produce any obvious errors in the
pre-1.6 version of the code.
For example, a compareTo change while an object is on the queue would be
much more likely to produce an NPE with the 1.6 implementation of
PriorityQueue than the 1.5 implementation.
Patricia
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