Description Jeff Douglas 2011-08-03 08:43:36 EDT

Tim, can you please fix this? It causes a null pointer exception. I am not sure what the proper fix would be here.

The problem is this. In the 3rd line where conversionDirection returns a value, a null is coming back. You check for the null in the if statement a few lines later, but in the 2nd half of the method (about 20 lines later) you don't check to a null, so it tries to use a null object in the statement (direction == -1) and this causes the NPE:

		if (result == null) {
			// If there was no operation then reverse the lookup
			if (direction == -1) {


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	public static Operation getBinaryOperation(Classifier lhs, Classifier rhs, String opSymbol) {
		if (!(lhs instanceof StructPart)) return null;
		StructPart clazz = null;
		Integer direction = conversionDirection(lhs, rhs, opSymbol);
		
		// Now check for operation based on one type being converted to the other
		// to determine where to look for the operation
		Operation conOp = null;
		if (direction == null || direction == 0) {
			clazz = (StructPart)lhs;
		}
		else if (direction == -1) {
			conOp = getConversionOperation((StructPart)rhs, (StructPart)lhs);
			if (conOp == null) return null;
			clazz = (StructPart)conOp.getType().getClassifier();
		}
		else if (direction == 1) {
			conOp = getConversionOperation((StructPart)lhs, (StructPart)rhs);
			if (conOp == null) return null;
			clazz = (StructPart)conOp.getType().getClassifier(); 
		}
		else if (direction == 2) {
			clazz = (StructPart)TypeUtils.Type_DECIMAL;
		}
		// First check if there is an explicit operation 
		// independent of conversion of either side to the other.
		// Check only the lhs classifier for this operation.
		// This is to handle the cases where binary operations are implemented
		// that do not force a conversion of one type to the other, i.e
		// they have the LHS and RHS being different types
		if (!lhs.equals(rhs)) {
			List<Operation> ops = TypeUtils.getBestFitOperation(clazz, opSymbol, (StructPart)lhs, (StructPart)rhs);
			// Filter out an operation that has the same parameter types for each parameter
			if (ops.size() == 1 
					&& !(ops.get(0).getParameters().get(0).getType().equals(ops.get(0).getParameters().get(1).getType()))) {
				return ops.get(0);
			}
			if (ops.size() > 1) return null;
		}
		
		Operation result = TypeUtils.getBinaryOperation(clazz, opSymbol);
		if (result == null) {
			// If there was no operation then reverse the lookup
			if (direction == -1) {
				conOp = getConversionOperation((StructPart)lhs, (StructPart)rhs);
				if (conOp == null) return null;
				clazz = (StructPart)conOp.getType().getClassifier();
			}
			else if (direction == 1) {
				conOp = getConversionOperation((StructPart)rhs, (StructPart)lhs);
				if (conOp == null) return null;
				clazz = (StructPart)conOp.getType().getClassifier(); 
			}		
			result = TypeUtils.getBinaryOperation(clazz, opSymbol);
		}
		return result;	
	}