Description Blaise Doughan 2011-07-20 14:08:41 EDT

The following error is thrown:

javax.xml.bind.JAXBException
- with linked exception:
[java.lang.NullPointerException]
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContext$TypeMappingInfoInput.createContextState(JAXBContext.java:827)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContext.<init>(JAXBContext.java:138)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:142)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:129)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:93)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory.createContext(JAXBContextFactory.java:83)
at org.eclipse.persistence.testing.jaxb.xmlenum.EnumSwitchTestCases.testCreateContext(EnumSwitchTestCases.java:28)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.javamodel.Helper.isBuiltInJavaType(Helper.java:261)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.shouldGenerateTypeInfo(AnnotationsProcessor.java:1546)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.processClass(AnnotationsProcessor.java:1045)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.processAdditionalClasses(AnnotationsProcessor.java:1010)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.postBuildTypeInfo(AnnotationsProcessor.java:592)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.AnnotationsProcessor.processClassesAndProperties(AnnotationsProcessor.java:233)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.compiler.Generator.<init>(Generator.java:147)
at org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContext$TypeMappingInfoInput.createContextState(JAXBContext.java:824)

When creating a JAXBContext on a class that contains a switch statment on an enum such as:

public class EnumSwitchRoot {

    private Department department;

    private Department foo() {
        switch(department) {
        case SALES: {
            return Department.SALES;
        }
        case SUPPORT: {
            return Department.SUPPORT;
        }
        }
        return null;
    }

}