[LANG-1186] NullPointerException in FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.5
• Component/s: lang.time.*
• Assignee: Charles Honton
• Reporter: Nick Manley
• Created: 20/Nov/15 05:34
• Updated: 16/Nov/16 20:42
• Resolved: 18/Dec/15 01:34

Description

Java 8u60 has a change where DateFormatSymbols.getZoneStrings returns arrays with 7 elements instead of 5 like it previously had. For some locales, the additional two elements are null.

Running org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.597 sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest
testTimeZoneStrategyPattern(org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest)  Time elapsed: 0.597 sec  <<< ERROR!
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy.<init>(FastDateParser.java:856)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.getLocaleSpecificStrategy(FastDateParser.java:647)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.getStrategy(FastDateParser.java:616)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.access$100(FastDateParser.java:74)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser$StrategyParser.letterPattern(FastDateParser.java:230)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser$StrategyParser.getNextStrategy(FastDateParser.java:214)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.init(FastDateParser.java:161)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.<init>(FastDateParser.java:147)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser.<init>(FastDateParser.java:108)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest.testTimeZoneStrategyPattern(FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest.java:31)

Issue Links

• relates to: LANG-1285 NullPointerException in FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy