i am getting null pointer exception from String placeName = placeText.getText().toString();

问题

Hi want to get the place name from the edit text and mark on map here is my code where i got null pointer exception please help me what i should do and where i am going wrong.

as I am getting the place name from the edit text field in dialog box.

View layout = View.inflate(this, R.layout.alertbox, null);

            AlertDialog.Builder dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
            dialog.setTitle("Enter the places");
            dialog.setView(layout);

            dialog.setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {



                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub


                     EditText placeText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.strtplace);          
                             String placeName = placeText.getText().toString();
//                              
  Break from execution if the user has not entered anything in the field
                        if(placeName.compareTo("")==0) 
                        numberOptions = 5;
                        String [] optionArray = new String[numberOptions];
                        Geocoder gcoder = new Geocoder(TravellogActivity.this);  

                        try{
                            List<Address> results = gcoder.getFromLocationName(placeName,numberOptions);
                            Iterator<Address> locations = results.iterator();
                            String raw = "\nRaw String:\n";
                            String country;
                            int opCount = 0;
                            while(locations.hasNext()){
                                Address location = locations.next();
                                lat = location.getLatitude();
                                lon = location.getLongitude();
                                country = location.getCountryName();
                                if(country == null) {
                                    country = "";
                                } else {
                                    country =  ", "+country;
                                }
                                raw += location+"\n";
                                optionArray[opCount] = location.getAddressLine(0)+", "+location.getAddressLine(1)+country+"\n";
                                opCount ++;
                            }
                            Log.i("Location-List", raw);
                            Log.i("Location-List","\nOptions:\n");
                            for(int i=0; i<opCount; i++){
                                Log.i("Location-List","("+(i+1)+") "+optionArray[i]);
                            }

                        } catch (IOException e){
                            Log.e("Geocoder", "I/O Failure; is network available?",e);
                        }           

                        p = new GeoPoint(latE6, lonE6);
                        myMC.animateTo(p); 


                    }                       
                });

            dialog.show();
            break;

            }



        return false  ;

    }

回答1:

use EditText placeText = (EditText) layout.findViewById(R.id.strtplace); intead of EditText placeText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.strtplace);

回答2:

NullPointerExceptions are the most easy exceptions to find and debug.

If you're getting a NullPointerException on this line :

String placeName = placeText.getText().toString();

The only thing that can be null is the placeText variable, or the placeText.getText()

You need to figure out why it is null. As your placeText is on the alert, so you should fetch it from the layout using layout.findViewById. As your fetching it from the wrong place, it will be null, causing the NullPointerException.

in theory, getText() could also return null, but the current implementation in the Android SDK will return an empty string when nothing is filled in, so that can't be null.

回答3:

heres the changes that you need to do: //both the view and the editext should be declared as final and the findViewById method needs a layout on which it is to be called

final View layout = View.inflate(this, R.layout.alertbox, null);
- final EditText placeText = (EditText) layout.findViewById(R.id.strtplace);

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6420999/i-am-getting-null-pointer-exception-from-string-placename-placetext-gettext

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