I am getting the response from the web service as below
<topic id="2"></topic>
<topic id="2">xxx</topic>
while parsing the above throws Null pointer exception .This is my code
speakersnode=speaker.getElementsByTagName("speaker");
for(int k=0;k<speakersnode.getLength();k++)
{
ids.addElement(((Element)speakersnode.item(k)).getAttribute("id"));
System.out.println("speaker "+speakersnode.item(k).getFirstChild().getNodeValue());
vspeakers.addElement(speakersnode.item(k).getFirstChild().getNodeValue());
}
How can i solve the problem.
Try this:
speakersnode=speaker.getElementsByTagName("speaker");
for(int k=0;k<speakersnode.getLength();k++)
{
ids.addElement(((Element)speakersnode.item(k)).getAttribute("id"));
String info = speakersnode.item(k).getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
if (info == null){
info = "";
}
System.out.println("speaker "+ info );
vspeakers.addElement(info);
}
You also need to learn how to debug.
And how to handle exceptions.
You will lear how to fix this kind of stuff in seconds
I tried the following code it workd
speakersnode=speaker.getElementsByTagName("speaker");
for(int k=0;k<speakersnode.getLength();k++)
{
String info;
ids.addElement(((Element)speakersnode.item(k)).getAttribute("id"));
try{
info = speakersnode.item(k).getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
}catch(NullPointerException e){info="";}
vspeakers.addElement(info);
}