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anuragsinghnsanuragsinghns 

Attempt to dereference a null object error

Hi Guys,
I get Attempt to dereference a null object error with the system.debug below but if I comment it out the case gets created and also an account gets associated with it!Could you help me resolve this issue

//associating a account to the case
caseAccountPresent.accountId=accountUniqueIdMap.get(caseUniqueIdMap.get(caseAccountPresent)).Id; 
 //debug of the same
system.debug('the Account'+accountUniqueIdMap.get(caseUniqueIdMap.get(caseAccountPresent)).Id);
Best Answer chosen by anuragsinghns
logontokartiklogontokartik
Hi Anurag,
 
Looks like you are using an SOBject as a key in your map. thats not really recommended.  And your code is changing that SOBject in the line

caseAccountPresent.accountId=accountUniqueIdMap.get(caseUniqueIdMap.get(caseAccountPresent)).Id;

and in the System.debug, when you are trying to get the value from map, since SObject is changed, its not finding the value throwing NPE. 

Hope this helps.

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logontokartiklogontokartik
Hi Anurag,
 
Looks like you are using an SOBject as a key in your map. thats not really recommended.  And your code is changing that SOBject in the line

caseAccountPresent.accountId=accountUniqueIdMap.get(caseUniqueIdMap.get(caseAccountPresent)).Id;

and in the System.debug, when you are trying to get the value from map, since SObject is changed, its not finding the value throwing NPE. 

Hope this helps.


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anuragsinghnsanuragsinghns
@logontokartiklogontokartik I think you hit the bull's eye with that one :)
sorry stupid question come to think about it.
Thank you very much