public class Test {
public int [] x;
public Test(int N)
{
int[] x = new int [N];
for (int i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
x[i]=i;
StdOut.println(x[i]);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
String path = "/Users/alekscooper/Desktop/test.txt";
In reader = new In(path);
int size=reader.readInt();
StdOut.println("Size = "+size);
Test N = new Test(size);
StdOut.println(N.x[3]);
}
/* ADD YOUR CODE HERE */
}
Hello guys. I'm learning Java through reading Robert Sedgwick's book on algorithms and I'm using his libraries such as StdOut, for example. But the question is about Java in general. I don't understand why Java here throws a NullPointerException. I do know what that means in general, but I don't know why it is here because here's what I think I'm doing:
read an integer number from the file - the size of the array in the class Test. In my test example size=10, so no out-of-bound type of thing happens.
print it.
create the object N of type Test. In this object I think I create an array of size that I have just read from the file. For fun I initialize it from 0 to size-1 and print it. So far so good.
and here where it all begins. Since my class is public and I've run the constructor I think I have the object N which as an attribute has the array x with size elements. However , when I'm trying to address x, for example,
StdOut.println(Nx[3]);
Java throws NullPointerException.
Why so? Please help and thank you very much for your time.
what you did is called shadowing you shadowed your field x
with local variable x
. so all you need to do is avoiding this:
int[] x = new int [N];
is wrong, if you want your field to initialize instead of a local variable then you could do something like : x = new int [N];
for more information read this
change the first line in constructor from
int[] x = new int [N];
to
x = new int [N];
it should work...
Actually in constructor when you say int[] x, it is creating one more local variable instead setting data to public variable x... if you remove int[] from first line of constructor then it initizes the public variable & you will be able to print them in main() method
Inside public Test(int n)
:
Change
int[] x = new int [N]; // Creating a local int array x
to
x = new int [N]; // Assigning it to x
Everyone has given the code that would work. But the reason is something called as variable scoping. When you create a variable (by saying int[] x, you are declaring x as an integer array and by saying x = new int[4] you are assigning a new array to x). If you use the same variable name x everywhere and keep assigning things to it, it'll be the same across your class.
But, if you declare int[] x one more time - then you are creating one more variable with the name x - now this can result in duplicate variable error or if you're declaring in a narrower 'scope', you will be overriding your previous declaration of x.
Please read about java variable scopes to understand how scoping works.
int size=reader.readInt(); // size < 3
StdOut.println(N.x[3]); // length of x[] less than 3, so x[3] case NullPointException
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