topic Re: A weird bug you have in All Apps and Add-ons

A weird bug you have

RanCo — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 14:06:41 GMT

I didn't touch my app for more then a year, and all of a sudden I get

0java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to get length of null array
1 at com.splunk.mint.DataFlusher$1.run(SourceFile:30)
2 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)
3 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113)
4 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)
5 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

If I look deeper, I see that it is accompanied by another exception I threw, because of a view remained null after the init.

Re: A weird bug you have

burwell — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:33:28 GMT

Hi. What are you running exactly that gets you this error?

Re: A weird bug you have

RanCo — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:35:27 GMT

IDK - I didn't run it - the error was reported to me on your site.

Re: A weird bug you have

DalJeanis — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:19:14 GMT

You haven't given us enough context to understand what your issue is, let alone to help you resolve it.

What app? What version? What version of splunk are you on? What operating system? What were you doing when the app threw the error? If you haven't touched the app for a year, what establishes that it should have been working before today? (ie, How do we know it didn't break six months ago?)

Re: A weird bug you have

RanCo — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:23:58 GMT

Android 6.1

Re: A weird bug you have

RanCo — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:24:39 GMT

The bug was reported on your site... It didn't happen to me.

Re: A weird bug you have

burwell — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:46:34 GMT

Oh so you saw this bug on answers.splunk.com

So look here https://answers.splunk.com/answers/216856/how-do-i-file-a-splunk-support-case

Maybe email to support@splunk.com

Seems like it was an intermittent bug unless you can reproduce the bug.

Re: A weird bug you have

acharlieh — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:47:48 GMT

Now I'm not too familiar with SplunkMINT but I suspect this is actually an issue with the Android app that you are using. As you mentioned that you haven't used this app in over a year I would first make sure that your app is up to date as the developer may have fixed the issue in the meantime. If the issue is still present, I would then contact the developer of said app to report the issue to them. I suspect this is a bug in how the developer is using the MINT SDK, as I found a GitHub Issue on another developer's repository. That developer seems to have fixed this issue by updating the version of the MINT SDK that they were using and ensuring that they were not attempting to set a null object somewhere.

GitHub Issue: https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz-android/issues/262
Related Commit: https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz-android/commit/f3a5713a5d00cbbe492c269b63e3510632b42d1c