Requestdispatcher Nullpointer Exception

Question

i have following Servlet Code:

@WebServlet("/Login")
public class Login extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public String lang = "";   
/**
 * @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
 */
public Login() {
    super();
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}

/**
 * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
 */
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
}

/**
 * @see HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
 */
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    String lcLog = request.getParameter("LogType").toUpperCase();
    switch(lcLog)
    {
        case "LOGIN":
            try {
                boolean llErfolg = doLogin(request.getParameter("user").toUpperCase(),request.getParameter("pw"));
                if(llErfolg==true)
                {
                    System.out.println("Login");
                    HttpSession session = request.getSession();
                    session.setAttribute("username", request.getParameter("user").toUpperCase());
                    session.setAttribute("Language", lang);
                    request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/view/Kacheln_Test.jsp").forward(request, response);
                }
                else
                {
                    System.out.println("Login Failed");
                    request.setAttribute("LogInFailed", true);
                    request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/view/Startseite.jsp").forward(request, response);
                }
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            break;
        case "LOGOUT":
            System.out.println("Logout");
            HttpSession session = request.getSession();
            session.invalidate();
            request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/view/Startseite.jsp").forward(request, response);
            break;
        default:
            System.out.println("Warum?");
            break;
    }
}

Everything worked fine until now, but recently whenever i get so the case "LogOut", i get a Nullpointer Exception at the Dispatcher and i have absolutely no idea why, because it worked a few days before.

I have following Kacheln_Test.jsp file, maybe there is the root of the problem, because when i click on "Kunden" the same error happens

<c:url var="post_url2" value="/Login" />
<form id="LogOut" method="POST" action="${post_url2}" name="LogOut">
    <input type="hidden" id="LogType" name="LogType" value = "" />
    <fmt:message key="Kacheln.Label.Angemeldetals"/>&emsp; <%=session.getAttribute("username") %>,
    <a href="javascript:{}" onclick="ausloggen_setzen('LogOut');"><fmt:message key="Kacheln.Label.LogOut"/> </a>
</form>

same error here

<div class="image-container">
    <div class="frame">
       <input class="live-slide"  type ="image" src="Images/Kunden.png" onClick="return setValue('Mail')" />
    </div>
    <div class="image-overlay" onclick="return setValue('Kunden')">
        <fmt:message key="Kacheln.Button.Kunden"/>
    </div>
</div>

that are the functions called

<script>
    function ausloggen_setzen(lcTest)
    {
        document.getElementById('LogType').value = lcTest;
        document.getElementById('LogOut').submit();
        return true;
    }
    function setValue(lcArt)
    {
        document.getElementById("OF").value = lcArt;
        document.getElementById("OFform").submit();
        return true;
    }
</script>

hope somebody can help, i think it's just a small thing but i don't know the reason

Error Stacktrace:

Jul 12, 2017 8:46:22 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve    
invoke
SCHWERWIEGEND: Servlet.service() for servlet [Login] in context with path
 [/Tuev_Test] threw exception [org.apache.jasper.JasperException:   
java.lang.NullPointerException] with root cause
java.lang.NullPointerException
at     org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.view.Menu_jsp._jspService(Menu_jsp.java:251)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:438)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:396)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:340)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:292)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:716)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:584)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:523)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:885)
at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.view.Startseite_jsp._jspService(Startseite_jsp.java:136)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:438)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:396)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:340)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:292)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:240)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:716)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:466)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:391)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:318)
at Login.doPost(Login.java:73)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:648)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:292)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:240)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:212)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:94)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:616)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:141)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:502)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1132)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:684)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1533)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1489)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Greetings,

Kevin

where's your Startseite.jsp it probably have problematic include — Ori Marko, Jul 12 '17 at 06:59
why should there be a problem with it? At the beginning of the programm the jsp is called and opened fine, but when i click on "Ausloggen" on Kacheln_Test.jsp, that's where the error happens, what shoul be different there than at the start of the website? — Kevin Barz, Jul 12 '17 at 07:02
BTW why do you call session.invalidate(); before it? can it be removed? — Ori Marko, Jul 12 '17 at 07:10
i don't know, is that important? i don't need the session anymore, thats why i call the Startsite.jsp again and close the session — Kevin Barz, Jul 12 '17 at 07:16
The stacktrace shows the problem is in `Menu.jsp`, show its code. — Jozef Chocholacek, Jul 12 '17 at 07:18
thanks for the answers, i figured it out myself by looking calmly at the code :) — Kevin Barz, Jul 12 '17 at 07:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '17 at 07:44

I have found both of my problems, with carefully going through the code step by step, i saw that in both include jsp i had at "Kunden" and "Startseite" there was a request.getAttribute(). In both of my cases, where there was a nullpointerexception, i forgot to set the attribute before calling the jsp.

but because there just was an Nullpointerexception at first, i became unsure, so that i totally oversaw the obvious reason

thanks for the answers and sorry for my blindness and stupidity :(

Greetings,

Kevin

Requestdispatcher Nullpointer Exception

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