java.lang.IllegalArgumentException : Parameter specified as non-null is null: method kotlin.jvm.internal.Intrinsics.checkParameterIsNotNull

Question

I'm getting this error

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter specified as non-null is null: method kotlin.jvm.internal.Intrinsics.checkParameterIsNotNull, parameter event

for the line

override fun onEditorAction(v: TextView, actionId: Int, event: KeyEvent)

Following is the entire code. This code was originally in java, I converted it to Kotlin using Android Studio, but now I'm getting this error. I tried rebuilding and cleaning the project, but that didn't work.

val action = supportActionBar //get the actionbar
action!!.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true) //enable it to display a custom view in the action bar.
action.setCustomView(R.layout.search_bar)//add the custom view
action.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false) //hide the title

edtSearch = action.customView.findViewById(R.id.edtSearch) as EditText //the text editor


//this is a listener to do a search when the user clicks on search button
edtSearch?.setOnEditorActionListener(object : TextView.OnEditorActionListener {
    override fun onEditorAction(v: TextView, actionId: Int, event: KeyEvent): Boolean {
    if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH) {
         Log.e("TAG","search button pressed")  //doSearch()
         return true
        }
     return false
    }
})

Answer 1

The last parameter can be null, as described by the docs:

KeyEvent: If triggered by an enter key, this is the event; otherwise, this is null.

So what you have to do is make the Kotlin type nullable to account for this, otherwise the injected null check will crash your application when it gets a call with a null value as you've already seen it:

edtSearch?.setOnEditorActionListener(object : TextView.OnEditorActionListener {
    override fun onEditorAction(v: TextView, actionId: Int, event: KeyEvent?): Boolean {
        ...
    }
})

More explanation about platform types in this answer.

Answer 2

To solve this issue, need to make the "event" parameter nullable. Add "?" at the end of the declaration.

override fun onEditorAction(v: TextView, actionId: Int, event: KeyEvent?)

Answer 3

I got a similar exception: "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter specified as non-null is null: method kotlin.jvm.internal.Intrinsics.checkParameterIsNotNull, parameter title".

Then researched a function and found a parameter that became null while must not:

class Item(
    val id: Int,
    val title: String,
    val address: String
)

When I called it like Item(id, name, address) and name was null, I got this exception.

Answer 4

This error would happen if you pass parameters with null value from Java class to Kotlin class [by calling methods & implemented callback between classes].

And even pass null to a parameter that Compiler can not detect it as compile time, so crash will happen in run time.

Because Kotlin is null-safe so the app will crash!

Fix: Change parameters type in kotlin method to Nullable types by adding ? to the end of type.

For example your kotlin funcion will be call in Java class by:

var cls = ClassKotlin()
     cls.function1("name", null, true) //Call func inside kotlin class

but your func declaration in ClassKotlin is:

ClassKotlin {
  fun function1(firstname : String , lastName : String , status : Bool){
  //...
  }
 } // class

So you passed a null value to a non Null paremeter in kotlin func.

How to fix:

Just change the Kotlin func as:

 fun function1(firstname : String , lastName : String? , status : Boolean){
  //...
  }

* a ? added to String data type