NPE when getting cookies


NullPointer exception in cookies() method of HttpSupport:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.javalite.activeweb.HttpSupport.cookies(HttpSupport.java:827)
at app.controllers.LoginController.index(LoginController.java:90)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor318.invoke(Unknown Source)

Code:

 /**
     * Returns collection of all cookies browser sent.
     *
     * @return collection of all cookies browser sent.
     */
    public List<Cookie> cookies(){
        javax.servlet.http.Cookie[] servletCookies = Context.getHttpRequest().getCookies();
        List<Cookie> cookies = new ArrayList<Cookie>();
        for (javax.servlet.http.Cookie servletCookie: servletCookies) {    // --- NPE
            Cookie cookie = Cookie.fromServletCookie(servletCookie);
            cookies.add(cookie);
        }
        return cookies;
    }

HTTP Servlet documentation says that HttpServletRequest may return null within 
getCookies method:

/**
     *
     * Returns an array containing all of the <code>Cookie</code>
     * objects the client sent with this request.
     * This method returns <code>null</code> if no cookies were sent.
     *
     * @return        an array of all the <code>Cookies</code>
     *            included with this request, or <code>null</code>
     *            if the request has no cookies
     *
     *
     */

    public Cookie[] getCookies();

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ipolevoy@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 9:46

google-code-export / activeweb

NPE when getting cookies #90