[BEANUTILS-421] NullPointerException in BeanUtilsBean.setProperty

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Bean / Property Utils
• Assignee: Benedikt Ritter
• Reporter: Maxim Kramarenko
• Created: 29/Jan/13 11:30
• Updated: 05/Dec/13 21:05

Description

I got the following exception on some servers:

javax.servlet.ServletException: BeanUtils.populate
at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:475)
at org.apache.struts.chain.commands.servlet.PopulateActionForm.populate(PopulateActionForm.java:50)
at org.apache.struts.chain.commands.AbstractPopulateActionForm.execute(AbstractPopulateActionForm.java:60)
at org.apache.struts.chain.commands.ActionCommandBase.execute(ActionCommandBase.java:51)
at org.apache.commons.chain.impl.ChainBase.execute(ChainBase.java:191)
at org.apache.commons.chain.generic.LookupCommand.execute(LookupCommand.java:305)
at org.apache.commons.chain.impl.ChainBase.execute(ChainBase.java:191)
at org.apache.struts.chain.ComposableRequestProcessor.process(ComposableRequestProcessor.java:283)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:462)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.setProperty(BeanUtilsBean.java:982)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.populate(BeanUtilsBean.java:830)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils.populate(BeanUtils.java:433)
at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:473)