[richfaces-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Reopened: (RF-1636) Sorting date-column in scrollableDataTable gives NPE

Sorting date-column in scrollableDataTable gives NPE ---------------------------------------------------- Key: RF-1636 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1636 Project: RichFaces Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.1.2 Reporter: Alexander Seitz Assigned To: Tsikhon Kuprevich Fix For: 3.2.0, 3.1.4 If you try to sort a column (by clicking the column header) containing entries of the type date, you get a NullPointerException in case one or more date-values are empty in the table. Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Date.getMillisOf(Date.java:939) at java.util.Date.compareTo(Date.java:959) at java.util.Date.compareTo(Date.java:112) at org.richfaces.model.internal.WrappedBeanComparator.compare(WrappedBeanComparator.java:42) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1270) at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1210) at java.util.Collections.sort(Collections.java:159) at org.richfaces.model.internal.ComponentSortableDataModel.prepareCollection(ComponentSortableDataModel.java:57) at org.richfaces.model.internal.ComponentSortableDataModel.loadData(ComponentSortableDataModel.java:81) at org.richfaces.model.DataModelCache.loadData(DataModelCache.java:153) at org.richfaces.model.ScrollableTableDataModel.walk(ScrollableTableDataModel.java:115) at org.richfaces.model.DataModelCache.walk(DataModelCache.java:183) at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.walk(UIDataAdaptor.java:968) ...