android.content.Context.getPackageName()' on a null object reference

Question

Hi I am working with Fragments which implements an interface.

public class SigninFragment extends Fragment implements SigninInterface 

The interface's method implementation in the fragment class is as follows.

@Override
public void afterSubmitClicked(String userId, Bundle bundle) {

    Log.d(TAG,"Calling time afterSubmitClicked called"+bundle);

    if(!userId.equals("-1")){
        //Logged in successfully
        //Move to MusicHome

        Intent mIntent = new Intent(getActivity(),MusicHome.class);
        mIntent.putExtra("SigninFragment.user_details", bundle);
        startActivity(mIntent);

    }else{
        //Logging in failed
        //show error dialog
    }

}

This method is called after exectuting a AsynchronousTask (which extends AsyncTask) class.

But I am getting crash. And the error message shows

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.content.Context.getPackageName()' on a null object reference

Logcat

   02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177): Process: com.raaga.android, PID: 28177
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177): java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.content.Context.getPackageName()' on a null object reference
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.content.ComponentName.<init>(ComponentName.java:77)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.content.Intent.<init>(Intent.java:3996)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at com.raaga.fragments.SigninFragment.afterSubmitClicked(SigninFragment.java:152)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at com.raaga.asynctask.SignInAsyncTask.onPostExecute(SignInAsyncTask.java:92)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at com.raaga.asynctask.SignInAsyncTask.onPostExecute(SignInAsyncTask.java:1)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:632)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:645)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899)
02-14 16:37:04.648: E/AndroidRuntime(28177):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694)

I have tried myself and explored in Google. But I didn't get any solution. Could any one help on this ?

Answer 1

I have found the mistake what I did. We need to get the activity instance from the override method OnAttach() For example,

public MainActivity activity;

@Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity){
    this.activity = activity;
}

Then pass the activity as context as following.

Intent mIntent = new Intent(activity, MusicHome.class);