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> Hi there - I found a small tiny problem and think I've solved it.
>
> I'm running cocoon 2.0.2 inside Jboss 3.0 RC 3 (using the Jetty web
> container) -- works fine!
>
> But living in Denmark I'd like to submit forms containing the ���
> characters; Æ &OSlash; and Å for those speaking HTML. But it
> seems that the Jetty container is not setting any character encoding on
> the request and I thus have to set one myself; which is fine 'cause
> Cocoon ships with the SetCharacterEncodingAction; and I've verified that
> this action sets up the right character encoding for me -- the
> characters are propagated to my CMP 2.0 Beans nicely.
>
> If, however, I then add an action that pulls a parameter from the
> Request (taken from the ObjectModel) - and that parameter is not present
> in the request, I get a Null Pointer Exception:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> org.apache.cocoon.environment.http.HttpRequest.decode(HttpRequest.java:300)
> at
> org.apache.cocoon.environment.http.HttpRequest.getParameter(HttpRequest.java:293)
>
> ...(more staktrace)
>
> Because: when the org.apache.cocoon.environment.http.HttpRequest has
> it's own defined character encoding, it will always call the
> "decode(String)" method - which assumes that the passed String is non-null.
>
> I know that I can easily work around this - but looking at the other
> actions in the org.apache.cocoon.acting package I can see that many of
> them do: "if (request.getParameter("something") != null)" or similar,
> and thus will start failing if the "SetCharacterEncodingAction" is
> executed beforehand.
>
> I have made a small correction to the "encode(String)" that checks for
> null; and it works for me.
> The check is merely: if (str == null) return null; as a first test in
> the method.
>
> I hope this will qualify for CVS ... ;-)
TIA for your contribution. Can you send a patch to bugzilla in the
diff -u format?
Greets
Gerhard
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