While playing with boxing/unboxing in Java 5, I found an interesting case. If my collection has a null value, the unboxing fails with a NullPointerException at runtime. Here is an example
The output of the progam is here:
So, unboxing is fine, unless a collection has a null element.
Sets = new HashSet ();
for (int i=0; i < 10; i++) {
s.add(i);
}
s.add(null);
System.out.println("s: " + s);
// this is a problem. The unboxing does not handle null
for (int sx : s) {
System.out.println("sx: " + sx);
}
The output of the progam is here:
s: [2, 4, null, 9, 8, 6, 1, 3, 7, 5, 0]
sx: 2
sx: 4
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.mykola.TestSets.main(TestSets.java:21)
So, unboxing is fine, unless a collection has a null element.
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