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javaandroidlocation
user1321928
user1321928

Reputation: 21

Null pointer exception when transforming Geopoint into Location

I am having a problem with some Android code. After searching for a way to transform a GeoPoint into a Location I found this question that seems to give me the answer but when I use the information my program fails with a null pointer exception.

My code:

    lat = 52.3725979;
    longt = 4.8998594;
    final GeoPoint geo_1 = new GeoPoint((int) (lat * 1E6),(int) (longt * 1E6));

    double latitude = geo_1.getLatitudeE6() / 1E6;
    double longitude = geo_1.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6;

    endLoc.setLatitude(latitude);
    endLoc.setLongitude(longitude);

Line 171:

    endLoc.setLatitude(latitude);

Initialization of the endLoc variable:

    public class VibroNavActivity extends Activity implements SensorListener{


final static String TAG = "VibroNavActivity";

//location variables
GeoPoint startGeo;
GeoPoint endGeo;
Location loc = null;
Location startLoc;
Location endLoc;
float totalDistance;//the distance between the startpoint end the endpoint

The Log:

    05-02 12:40:56.789: W/dalvikvm(27983): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a4b1f8)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{hcm.haska/hcm.haska.VibroNavActivity}:  java.lang.NullPointerException
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1956)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1981)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:123)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1147)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:787)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:554)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at hcm.haska.VibroNavActivity.onCreate(VibroNavActivity.java:171)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4465)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1920)
    05-02 12:40:56.800: E/AndroidRuntime(27983):    ... 11 more

Upvotes: 2

Views: 338

Answers (3)

Lord_JABA
Lord_JABA

Reputation: 2625

Location constructor needs provider string but i seen somewhere it can be empty string 

loc = new Location("");

Testing it in a moment;

Upvotes: 0

Ragesh Gopal
Ragesh Gopal

Reputation: 79

You have only declared endLoc, but the memory won't be allocated at this point. You need to initialize the memory by calling:

endLoc = new Location(....)

Upvotes: 0

cjk
cjk

Reputation: 46415

You aren't initialising endLoc you are only declaring it as a variable.

In your constructor, or somewhere lese in a method before line 171 is called, you need endLoc = new Location();

Upvotes: 3

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