blob is getting null pointer exception when setting the value

Question

I am getting the null pointer exception while setting the image to blob in db2 please help
below is my code

public class Myblob{ private Blob IMAGE_NAME= null;

    @Column(name = "IMAGE_NAME")
    public Blob getIMAGE_NAME() {
        return this.IMAGE_NAME;
    }

    public void setIMAGE_NAME(Blob blob) {
        this.IMAGE_NAME = blob;
    }
)
 for my controller code which is giving exception

 File myfile=new File("D://wildfly//java//images//myimage.JPG");
             BufferedImage originalImage=ImageIO.read(myfile);
             ByteArrayOutputStream baos=new ByteArrayOutputStream();
             ImageIO.write(originalImage, "jpg", baos );
             byte[] imageInByte=baos.toByteArray();

              Blob blob=null;
               blob =  (Blob) new SerialBlob(imageInByte );
               System.out.println("the blob isss"+blob.toString());
               if(blob==null){
                    System.out.println("blob is null");
                    } else {
                        System.out.println("blob is NOT null");
                        System.out.println(blob.length());
                    }
             //at this line i am getting null but it is printing not null in sysout above 
            categoryMVO.setIMAGE_NAME(blob);

please suggest some answer

when iam trying to set the image to blob i am getting null pointer exception

Answer 1

can you verify that categoryMVO is not null ? otherwise can you post the exception please ? thx