Exception using CheckBoxSelectionModel

[Ltty]

Whenever I use the CheckBoxSelectionModel I get a NPE the first time a data grid loads. However, if I reload the grid using Ctrl + F5, everything works out fine. This is what I get:

java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.widget.grid.CheckBoxSelectionModel$2.handleEvent(CheckBoxSelectionModel.java:80)
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.widget.grid.CheckBoxSelectionModel$2.handleEvent(CheckBoxSelectionModel.java:1)
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.event.BaseObservable.callListener(BaseObservable.java:178)
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.event.BaseObservable.fireEvent(BaseObservable.java:86)
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.widget.Component.fireEvent(Component.java:456)
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.widget.Component.fireEvent(Component.java:439)
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.widget.grid.Grid.afterRenderView(Grid.java:728)
    at com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.widget.grid.Grid$1.run(Grid.java:711)
    at com.google.gwt.user.client.Timer.fire(Timer.java:149)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodAdaptor.invoke(MethodAdaptor.java:103)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodDispatch.invoke(MethodDispatch.java:71)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.invoke(OophmSessionHandler.java:172)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.reactToMessagesWhileWaitingForReturn(BrowserChannelServer.java:337)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.invokeJavascript(BrowserChannelServer.java:218)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpaceOOPHM.doInvoke(ModuleSpaceOOPHM.java:136)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.invokeNative(ModuleSpace.java:561)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.invokeNativeObject(ModuleSpace.java:269)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.JavaScriptHost.invokeNativeObject(JavaScriptHost.java:91)
    at com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.Impl.apply(Impl.java)
    at com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.Impl.entry0(Impl.java:213)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodAdaptor.invoke(MethodAdaptor.java:103)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodDispatch.invoke(MethodDispatch.java:71)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.invoke(OophmSessionHandler.java:172)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.reactToMessages(BrowserChannelServer.java:292)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.processConnection(BrowserChannelServer.java:546)
    at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.run(BrowserChannelServer.java:363)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

My code:

grid = new Grid<BeanModel>(model, colDef);

	selectionModel = new CheckBoxSelectionModel<BaseModel>();
	this.add(selectionModel.getColumn());  
...

			grid.setAutoExpandColumn(autoExpandValue);
			grid.setAutoHeight(true);
			grid.setBorders(true);
			grid.setSelectionModel(selectionModel);
			grid.addPlugin(selectionModel);
			table.add(grid);

[sven]

Have you tried to reproduce this in a small, standalone testcase implementing EntryPoint? It would be good to understand why you get the exception.

[Ltty]

It seems that there is a problem if I assign the content panel to an element within the UiBinder. I could fix this by reassigning and recreating the table whenever I get new grid data.

[sven]

If you could provide a testcase that we could simple run, than we would really like to fix this issue. But to fix this, we first need to understand the problem. Normally when the ViewReady event fires, the gridview should already have a columnheader (which seems to be null in your case, but i am just guessing).

[Ltty]

Here is the code that caused the problem. I provide the ColumnModel from an external factory to keep the table widget modular. In order to get the code working, I just put the stuff from the constructor to the initialize method.

The same issue occurs if I place the table.setTopComponent(toolBar); command directly in the setToolbar() method. Don't worry, I checked if I called the setToolbar() method before the initialize() method. If you do that the toolbar only appears if you reload the example a second time. However, this does not throw an exception.

TableWidget.zip