[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JBRULES-3685) NullPointerException in DefaultConsequenceInvoker at evaluate()

NullPointerException in DefaultConsequenceInvoker at evaluate() --------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-3685 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-3685 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: drools-core (expert) Affects Versions: 5.1.1.FINAL Environment: java 6, windows 7 x64 Reporter: Radai Rosenblatt Assignee: Mark Proctor i have a rule that looks like this: {code} rule "bad node status" when $ruleIdString1 : [get from somewhere] $node1 : Node($idString1 : idString) $hostStatus1 : HostStatus($status1 : status , nodeIdString == $idString1 , status != "up") from entry-point "Event Stream" then Map alertParams = new HashMap(); alertParams.put("0",($status1)); Map reportParams = null; Map reportFieldValues = null; String component = null; alerts.issueAlert($idString1 , UUID.fromString($ruleIdString1) , alertParams , reportParams, reportFieldValues, component); end {code} this causes drools to generate a class by the name of Rule_Bad_Node_Status_0DefaultConsequenceInvoker.java with the following bit of code: {code} public void evaluate(org.drools.spi.KnowledgeHelper knowledgeHelper, org.drools.WorkingMemory workingMemory) throws Exception { org.drools.spi.Tuple tuple = knowledgeHelper.getTuple(); org.drools.rule.Declaration[] declarations = knowledgeHelper.getRule().getDeclarations(); org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle $ruleIdString1__Handle__ = ( org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle ) tuple.get( knowledgeHelper.getDeclaration( declarations[1].getIdentifier() ) ); java.lang.String $ruleIdString1 = ( java.lang.String ) declarations[1].getValue((org.drools.common.InternalWorkingMemory) workingMemory, $ruleIdString1__Handle__.getObject() ); $ruleIdString1__Handle__ = (org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle) knowledgeHelper.getWorkingMemory().getFactHandle( $ruleIdString1 ); knowledgeHelper.getIdentityMap().put($ruleIdString1, $ruleIdString1__Handle__ ); org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle $idString2__Handle__ = ( org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle ) tuple.get( knowledgeHelper.getDeclaration( declarations[3].getIdentifier() ) ); java.lang.String $idString2 = ( java.lang.String ) declarations[3].getValue((org.drools.common.InternalWorkingMemory) workingMemory, $idString2__Handle__.getObject() ); $idString2__Handle__ = (org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle) knowledgeHelper.getWorkingMemory().getFactHandle( $idString2 ); knowledgeHelper.getIdentityMap().put($idString2, $idString2__Handle__ ); org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle $status1__Handle__ = ( org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle ) tuple.get( knowledgeHelper.getDeclaration( declarations[5].getIdentifier() ) ); java.lang.String $status1 = ( java.lang.String ) declarations[5].getValue((org.drools.common.InternalWorkingMemory) workingMemory, $status1__Handle__.getObject() ); $status1__Handle__ = (org.drools.common.InternalFactHandle) knowledgeHelper.getWorkingMemory().getFactHandle( $status1 ); //NullPointerException here knowledgeHelper.getIdentityMap().put($status1, $status1__Handle__ ); com.emc.dpa.analysis.Alerts alerts = ( com.emc.dpa.analysis.Alerts ) workingMemory.getGlobal( "alerts" ); Rule_Bad_Node_Status_0.defaultConsequence ( knowledgeHelper, $ruleIdString1, $ruleIdString1__Handle__ , $idString2, $idString2__Handle__ , $status1, $status1__Handle__ , alerts ); } {code} if, for some reason, the value for HostStatus is null i get a NPE from the commented line in the above code. the stack trace looks like this: {code} Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.drools.common.EqualityAssertMapComparator.hashCodeOf(EqualityAssertMapComparator.java:48) [drools-core.jar:5.1.1] at org.drools.core.util.ObjectHashMap.get(ObjectHashMap.java:100) [drools-core.jar:5.1.1] at org.drools.common.SingleThreadedObjectStore.getHandleForObject(SingleThreadedObjectStore.java:122) [drools-core.jar:5.1.1] at org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.getFactHandle(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:861) [drools-core.jar:5.1.1] at [package].Rule_Bad_Node_Status_0DefaultConsequenceInvoker.evaluate(Rule_Bad_Node_Status_0DefaultConsequenceInvoker.java:33) at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireActivation(DefaultAgenda.java:917) [drools-core.jar:5.1.1] ... 101 more {code} im guessing this is somehow related to my line in the then section taht reads