NPE in CategoryNode

[roundhill]

@maxme any thoughts on this one?

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.wordpress.android/org.wordpress.android.ui.posts.SelectCategoriesActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2211)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2261)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1256)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:737)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.wordpress.android.models.CategoryNode.createCategoryTreeFromDB(CategoryNode.java:84)
at org.wordpress.android.ui.posts.SelectCategoriesActivity.populateOrFetchCategories(SelectCategoriesActivity.java:99)
at org.wordpress.android.ui.posts.SelectCategoriesActivity.onCreate(SelectCategoriesActivity.java:75)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5133)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2175)
... 11 more

[maxme]

That could happen if a category have a parent with an invalid category id. Is this code already released ?

[roundhill]

Yeah, I think it is pretty rare though. I will get the fix pulled in to the next release.