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i am using Callable to apply multi threading with SOAP requests. It was working before, but suddenly it stop working and it is giving me a nullPointer Exception. Below part of my code:

public List<ServiceResponse> soapTransaction(String folderName, SoapVariables soapVariables){

    List<String> allMonitorIds = this.getMonitorIds(folderName);
    List<Callable<ServiceResponse>> list = new ArrayList<>();
    List<ServiceResponse> responses = new ArrayList<>();

    int counter = 0;
    for(int j = 0; j < Math.ceil(allMonitorIds.size() / 3.0); j++ ) {
        int threadNumbers = ((allMonitorIds.size() - (j*3)) < 3) ? (allMonitorIds.size() - (j*3)) : 3 ;
        ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(threadNumbers);

        for (int i = counter; i < threadNumbers+counter; i++) {

            list.add(new MainRunnable(soapVariables, allMonitorIds.get(i)));
        }

        counter += threadNumbers;

        try {

            List<Future<ServiceResponse>> tasks = executorService.invokeAll(list);
            for (Future<ServiceResponse> task : tasks) {
                responses.add(task.get());
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        list.clear();
    }
    return responses;
}

When I debug, everything gets done until the line

List<Future<ServiceResponse>> tasks = executorService.invokeAll(list);

Where it was getting the values of "list" into into the Future. It just stop doing it??

EDIT: here is the stack trace

> java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException:
> java.lang.NullPointerException    at
> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)   at
> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:192)  at
> HelperMethods.MainMethods.soapTransaction(MainMethods.java:35)    at
> TorchWebApp.MainController.nationalPage(MainController.java:58)   at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)   at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>   at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)     at
> org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:222)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:137)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:110)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:814)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:737)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:85)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:959)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:893)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:969)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:871)
>   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:648)     at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:845)
>   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)     at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:291)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>   at
> org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.RequestContextFilter.doFilterInternal(RequestContextFilter.java:99)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.HttpPutFormContentFilter.doFilterInternal(HttpPutFormContentFilter.java:87)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter.doFilterInternal(HiddenHttpMethodFilter.java:77)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:121)
>   at
> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:212)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:141)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
>   at
> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:521)
>   at
> org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1096)
>   at
> org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:674)
>   at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1500)
>   at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1456)
>   at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
>   at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
>   at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
>   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by:
> java.lang.NullPointerException    at
> HelperMethods.MainRunnable.call(MainRunnable.java:36)     at
> HelperMethods.MainRunnable.call(MainRunnable.java:10)     at
> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)  at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
>   at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
>   ... 1 more
Chiti Dahan
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  • Stacktrace please ... – Fildor Jun 22 '16 at 13:28
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    Not a solution, but: you are creating instances of `ExecutorService` in a loop. Are you sure that you want to do that? Also, you should shutdown an `ExecutorService` when you don't need it anymore. An `ExecutorService` is typically something you create once when your app starts up, and not every time you need to execute a task. – Jesper Jun 22 '16 at 13:34
  • @Fildor please find StackTrace on EDIT. Thnks – Chiti Dahan Jun 22 '16 at 13:37
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    Seems to me that the bug is in MainRunnable class ... Check this line: MainRunnable.java:36 – Fildor Jun 22 '16 at 13:41
  • @Jesper Thank you for your suggestions, I tried to implement all of them to better my code. – Chiti Dahan Jun 22 '16 at 20:51
  • @Fildor you were right, it was actually an int that needed to be a float and it was breaking the whole program. – Chiti Dahan Jun 22 '16 at 20:52

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