Android – NullPointerException on SearchView in Action Bar

Try to replace the failing line with: mSearchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search); mSearchView = (EnglishVerbSearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(mSearchMenuItem); Where R.id.action_search is the id of your search item in the menu. EDIT Your manifest should look like that: <activity android:name=”com.bronzelabs.twc.activities.WorkflowListActivity” android:label=”@string/app_name” android:theme=”@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light” > <intent-filter> <action android:name=”android.intent.action.MAIN” /> <category android:name=”android.intent.category.LAUNCHER” /> </intent-filter> </activity> <activity android:name=”.activities.SearchResultActivity” android:theme=”@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light” android:launchMode=”singleTop”> <intent-filter> <action android:name=”android.intent.action.SEARCH” /> … Read more

Null values of Strings and Integers in Java

Your code makes use of two different additive operators. The first three lines use string concatenation, whereas the last one uses numeric addition. String concatenation is well-defined to turn null into “null”: If the reference is null, it is converted to the string “null” (four ASCII characters n, u, l, l). Hence there is no … Read more

How come invoking a (static) method on a null reference doesn’t throw NullPointerException?

test() is a static method. A static member belongs to the type, and do not require an instance to access. A static member should ONLY be accessed via a type expression. That is, you should’ve written it as follows: Why.test(); // always invoke static method on the type it belongs to! Java does allow you … Read more

What is the difference between “(Object)null” and “null” in Java? [duplicate]

The first invocation will call the String.valueOf(Object) method, as you have explicitly typecasted null to Object reference. Conversely, the second one will invoke the overloaded String.valueOf(char[]) method, as char[] is more specific than Object for a null argument. There are other overloaded versions of this method that accept primitive parameters, but those are not a … Read more

Hibernate query.list() method is returning empty list instead of null value

The reason is not to force null checks in client code, in consistency with Effective Java 2nd Edition, Item 43: Return empty arrays or collections, not nulls. This makes the client code simpler and less error-prone (and most likely the method implementation as well). The null-return idiom is likely a holdover from the C programming … Read more

Why static fields are not initialized in time?

Because statics are initialized in the order they are given in source code. Check this out: class MyClass { private static MyClass myClass = new MyClass(); private static MyClass myClass2 = new MyClass(); public MyClass() { System.out.println(myClass); System.out.println(myClass2); } } That will print: null null myClassObject null EDIT Ok let’s draw this out to be … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)