[geotk] CSW client : unmarshalling issue

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Hello Damiano

Le 11/05/11 09:46, Damiano ALBANI a écrit :
> The exception that is thrown is :
> (...snip...)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>     at 
> org.geotoolkit.metadata.iso.extent.DefaultExtent.<clinit>(DefaultExtent.java:59)
>     ... 38 more
>
> Basically, in the DefaultExtend class, the "static { }" initializer fails due 
> to the "geographicElements" collection being a null object.

You have spotted a tricky corner case! The collection is not supposed to be 
null... except when marshalling an optional element to XML. This exception 
occurs because the DefaultExtent static initializer is executed *during* XML 
marshalling. I'm going to fix that now and the fix will be available tomorrow in 
the 3.x-SNAPSHOT versions.

As a workaround, you could add the following line at the begining of your code:

DefaultExtent.WORLD.getGeographicElements();

You don't need to do anything with the returned value. The intend is just to 
trig class initialization before the XML marshalling begin.

Thanks for spotting this bug!

     Martin