[DIRAPI-157] Calling the add() method with a multi-value attribute and a null value throws an NPE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0-M21
• Assignee: Emmanuel Lécharny
• Reporter: Steve Moyer
• Created: 11/Sep/13 15:28
• Updated: 08/Jan/15 17:17
• Resolved: 24/Feb/14 10:25

Description

The code that causes the problem would be something like:

entry.add("mail", null);

Alternately this code works:

entry.add("mail", new String[0]);

The stack trace from the failing code is as follows:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.entry.DefaultAttribute.add(DefaultAttribute.java:1006) [api-all-1.0.0-M20.jar:1.0.0-M20]
at org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.entry.DefaultAttribute.<init>(DefaultAttribute.java:353) [api-all-1.0.0-M20.jar:1.0.0-M20]
at org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.entry.DefaultEntry.put(DefaultEntry.java:1415) [api-all-1.0.0-M20.jar:1.0.0-M20]