Re: NullPointerException in java.lang.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString with Oracle driver

On Mar 2, 3:13 pm, "Dave" <drath...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've run into a problem reading values from a couple of rows in our
database. I've created a piece of code to
reproduce the problem.

....
ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery("select * from iocurrent
where ioid = " + ioId);
if (resultSet.next()) {
byte[] bytes = resultSet.getBytes(5);
HexStringEncoder encoder = new HexStringEncoder();
System.out.println("Hex Value: " +
encoder.bytesAsHexString(bytes));
System.out.println("Value: " + resultSet.getDouble(5));

}

The value in the field causing the problem is not null. I can view
the values with a couple of
different interactive SQL tools but when I try to run my code, I get
the following exception:

Hex Value: C1 01
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
java.lang.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:
980)
at java.lang.Double.valueOf(Double.java:202)
at oracle.sql.NUMBER.toDouble(NUMBER.java:331)
at
oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBConversion.NumberBytesToDouble(DBConversion.java:
3050)
at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.getDoubleValue(OracleStatement.java:
4668)
at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleResultSetImpl.getDouble(OracleResultSetImpl.java:
593)
at Test.boom2(Test.java:81)
at Test.main(Test.java:68)

I am using an Oracle 9i JDBC driver.

Has anyone seen this problems and could you suggest a fix?

Thanks,
Dave.

What is the 5th column of the table defined as?
What do you get if you do a getBigDecimal(5)?

Joe Weinstein at BEA Systems

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