Question

I’m getting very strange problem in JSF page when I try to display Java List<String> with countries in JSF page. This is the code:

 private List<String> listCountries;

    // Get the list with Countries
    public List<String> getlistCountries() { 
        // Generate List of Countries
        initlistCountries();
        return listCountries;
    }

    public void initlistCountries(){
        listCountries.add("Afghanistan");
        listCountries.add("Albania");
        listCountries.add("Algeria");
        listCountries.add("Andorra");
        listCountries.add("Angola");
        ......
    }

Is this code correct? I can’t use @PostConstruct because I have use it already.

I get his error when I load the JSF page:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.DX_57.AC_57.AddAccount.initlistCountries(AddAccount.java:344)
    at com.DX_57.AC_57.AddAccount.getlistCountries(AddAccount.java:339)

Answer 1

You haven’t initialized listCountries so make it

 public void initlistCountries(){
        listCountries = new ArrayList<String>();
        listCountries.add("Afghanistan");
        listCountries.add("Albania");
        listCountries.add("Algeria");
        listCountries.add("Andorra");
        listCountries.add("Angola");
        ......
    }