When I am using a PrimeFaces 5.2 <p:dataTable> with filtering,
<p:dataTable id="dataTable" var="cus"
value="#{customerListBean.customerList}"
paginator="true" rows="3"
paginatorTemplate="{RowsPerPageDropdown} {FirstPageLink} {PreviousPageLink} {CurrentPageReport} {NextPageLink} {LastPageLink}"
rowsPerPageTemplate="3,9,12,15" rowStatePreserved="true">
<p:column sortBy="#{cus.firstname}" filterBy="#{cus.firstname}" filterMatchMode="contains">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="First Name" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{cus.firstname}" />
</p:column>
<p:column sortBy="#{cus.lastname}" filterBy="#{cus.lastname}" filterMatchMode="contains">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Last Name" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{cus.lastname}" />
</p:column>
<p:column sortBy="#{cus.cellPhone}" filterBy="#{cus.cellPhone}" filterMatchMode="contains">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Phone Number" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{cus.cellPhone}" />
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
and this managed bean,
@ManagedBean
public class CustomerListBean {
private List<Customer> customerList;
private CustomerListDAO cc=new CustomerListDAO();
@PostConstruct
public void init() {
customerList=cc.getAllCustomer();
}
public List<Customer> getCustomerList() {
return customerList;
}
}
then the following error occurs:
Severe: Error Rendering View[/welcomePrimefaces.xhtml]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.primefaces.component.datatable.feature.FilterFeature.filter(FilterFeature.java:141)
at org.primefaces.component.datatable.feature.FilterFeature.encode(FilterFeature.java:108)
at org.primefaces.component.datatable.DataTableRenderer.encodeEnd(DataTableRenderer.java:78)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:920)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1863)
at com.sun.faces.context.PartialViewContextImpl$PhaseAwareVisitCallback.visit(PartialViewContextImpl.java:582)
at com.sun.faces.component.visit.PartialVisitContext.invokeVisitCallback(PartialVisitContext.java:183)
at org.primefaces.component.api.UIData.visitTree(UIData.java:821)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.visitTree(UIComponent.java:1700)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.visitTree(UIComponent.java:1700)
at com.sun.faces.context.PartialViewContextImpl.processComponents(PartialViewContextImpl.java:403)
at com.sun.faces.context.PartialViewContextImpl.processPartial(PartialViewContextImpl.java:322)
at org.primefaces.context.PrimePartialViewContext.processPartial(PrimePartialViewContext.java:60)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.encodeChildren(UIViewRoot.java:1004)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1856)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.renderView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:432)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.MultiViewHandler.renderView(MultiViewHandler.java:134)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:120)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:219)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:659)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1682)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:318)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:160)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:734)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:673)
at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:99)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:416)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:283)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$HttpHandlerCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:459)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:167)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.runService(HttpHandler.java:206)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.doHandle(HttpHandler.java:180)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServerFilter.handleRead(HttpServerFilter.java:235)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:283)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:200)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:132)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:111)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:536)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:112)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:117)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:56)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:137)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:591)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:571)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
How is this caused and how can I solve it?