Re: NPE in PriorityQueue.poll()
Twisted wrote:
This is a strange one. App just recovered gracefully from:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.PriorityQueue.siftDownComparable(PriorityQueue.java:627)
at java.util.PriorityQueue.siftDown(PriorityQueue.java:614)
at java.util.PriorityQueue.poll(PriorityQueue.java:523)
at com.sourceforge.sphaera.SThread.run(SThread.java:158)
The line of my own code that's involved is basically
Foo bar = baz.poll();
with baz an instance of PriorityQueue<Foo> and definitely not itself
null (and besides, the stack trace would have consisted of only the
last line if it were).
Looks like a library bug. JDK 1.6.0 -server -incgc -Xmx256 under WinXP
in case it matters, with the 1.6.0 standard library (including
PriorityQueue implementation).
Is the poll in a synchronized block like your add is?
Foo bar;
synchronized (queue) {
bar = baz.poll()
}
You need to make sure all access to baz is syncronized if it is access
in more than one thread.
BTW, from the Javadoc (in 1.5.0):
* <p> <strong>Note that this implementation is not
synchronized.</strong>
* Multiple threads should not access a <tt>PriorityQueue</tt>
* instance concurrently if any of the threads modifies the list
* structurally. Instead, use the thread-safe {@link
* java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue} class.
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