ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, while not accessing any of the index

Question

For some reason I am getting the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error, I am not trying to access any of the elements of the array, all I want to do is set the size, and pass by reference to the i.getRGB().

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package Logic;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

/**
 *
 * @author Steven, even(RageZone), Zingzags(PokeCommunity)
 */
public class SpriteSheet {

    private String path;
    private final int size;
    private int[] pixels;

    public static SpriteSheet tiles = new SpriteSheet("/Tilesets/Outside.png", 256);

    public SpriteSheet(String path, int size){
        this.path = path;
        this.size = size;
        pixels = new int[this.size * this.size];
        load();
    }

    public int getPixels(int params){
       return pixels[params];
    }

    public int getSize(){
        return size;
    }

    public int[] getPixels(){
        return pixels;
    }

    private void load(){
        try{
            BufferedImage im = ImageIO.read(SpriteSheet.class.getResource(path));
            int w = im.getWidth();
            int h = im.getHeight();
            im.getRGB(0, 0, w, h, pixels, 0, w);
        } catch(IOException ex){
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Error:

    Exception in thread "Display" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at Logic.Sprite.<clinit>(Sprite.java:16)
    at Logic.Screen.render(Screen.java:46)
    at game.Game.render(Game.java:82)
    at game.Game.run(Game.java:109)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 65536
    at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.getRGB(BufferedImage.java:958)
    at Logic.SpriteSheet.load(SpriteSheet.java:47)
    at Logic.SpriteSheet.<init>(SpriteSheet.java:27)
    at Logic.SpriteSheet.<clinit>(SpriteSheet.java:21)
    ... 5 more

Answer 1

For some reason I am getting the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error, I am not trying to access any of the elements of the array, all I want to do is set the size, and pass by reference to the i.getRGB().

According to the javadoc for the getRGB(...) method:

"An ArrayOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the region is not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed."

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As to the cause of the exception, I think that the problem is that the pixels array isn't big enough to hold the region of the image you are trying to extract to it. There's no obvious correlation between size and the dimensions of the image you are reading. (But then, it is not clear what you are actually trying to do in the load method ...)