Re: EC subclass constructor trouble

On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Zak Burke wrote:

> I have an EC class that extends EOEditingContext. Occasionally,  
> when creating a child EC of an existing EC, I get a NPE on the last  
> line of the constructor (see below). Any idea how that is possible?  
> I'm at a loss.
>
> init() is not a likely culprit; all it does is a single call to  
> super.setMessageHandler().
>
> zak.
>
>
> public I3pkbEditingContext(Session s, EOEditingContext ec)
> {
>     super(ec);
>     init();
>     User u = s.user();
>     if (u != null)
>         this.user = (User) EOUtilities.localInstanceOfObject(this, u);
> }

Is there any chance that s.user() returns a new user, one that has  
not been saved to the database?


sacha


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