Re: patch to avoid a NullPointerException

Derrick,

Thanks, applied

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Derrick Hudson <dsh(at)dman13(dot)dyndns(dot)org>wrote:

> I have observed a NullPointerException raised in PGobject.equals().
> The attached patch checks for a null value and avoids raising an
> exception.
>
> I am working with an application which makes extensive use of
> user-defined types, particularly enums, and also uses EclipseLink. I
> found it necessary to create EclipseLink converters to convert from
> the Java representation of the user-defined types to a PGobject so
> that PgJDBC sends the correct type information to the PostgreSQL
> server. It appears to be necessary to create an PGobject instance
> with the correct type label and a null value in order to store a NULL
> in a column with a user-defined type. However, this results in a
> NullPointerException when EclipseLink tests the two PGobject instances
> for equality.
>
> -Derrick
>
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