[CLI-133] NullPointerException in Util.stripLeadingHyphens when passed a null argument

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0, 1.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: CLI-1.x
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brian Egge
• Created: 05/Jun/07 23:51
• Updated: 06/Jun/07 07:11
• Resolved: 06/Jun/07 07:11

Description

If you try to do a hasOption(null), you get a NPE:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.commons.cli.Util.stripLeadingHyphens(Util.java:39)
at org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine.resolveOption(CommandLine.java:166)
at org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine.hasOption(CommandLine.java:68)

Either hasOption should reject the null argument, or the function should simply return false. I think the latter makes more since, as this is how Java collections generally work.