NPE occurs when generating dot file of an NFA
Mivik opened this issue · 2 comments
Mivik commented
I chose exactly the lexer in examples/simple
and appended "-dot" argument. Then the following NPE occurred:
../../bin/jflex -d out/genfiles -dot src/main/jflex/simple.flex
Reading "src/main/jflex/simple.flex"
Constructing NFA :
Unexpected exception encountered. This indicates a bug in JFlex.
Please consider filing an issue at http://github.com/jflex-de/jflex/issues/new
java.lang.NullPointerException
at jflex.core.NFA.dotFormat(NFA.java:502)
at jflex.core.NFA.writeDot(NFA.java:478)
at jflex.generator.LexGenerator.generate(LexGenerator.java:80)
at jflex.Main.generate(Main.java:320)
at jflex.Main.main(Main.java:336)
It seems that you didn't notice that the StateSet in table can be null while generating the graph.
lsf37 commented
Thanks for the report. Yes, you're right, it can be null
and will in fact often be null
. At least it should be easy to fix.
regisd commented
This issue should be easy to fix, either with a null-check, or using Optional
.