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160002227: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.model.MessageType com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.model.InAppMessage.getMessageType()' on a null object reference

See original GitHub issue

[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

  • Android Studio version: 3.6
  • Firebase Component: inappMessaging
  • Component version: 19.0.7

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce: I set up campaign which should show modal triggered by “on_foreground” + “app_launch” + custom event from Tag Manager. When opening an application, on the main screen the crash happens.

Steps to reproduce:

After publishing a test campaign the following error leads to app crash.

Relevant Code:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.model.MessageType com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.model.InAppMessage.getMessageType()' on a null object reference
        at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.extractActions(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:445)
        at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.inflateBinding(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:313)
        at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.access$000(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:81)
        at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay$1.run(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:289)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:907)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:216)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7625)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:524)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:987)

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:16 (5 by maintainers)

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igorfeshubcommented, Jan 4, 2021

Still occurs in 19.1.3 FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java line 439 com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.extractActions

Fatal Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method ‘com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.model.MessageType com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.model.InAppMessage.getMessageType()’ on a null object reference at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.extractActions(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:439) at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.inflateBinding(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:310) at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.access$000(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:80) at com.google.firebase.inappmessaging.display.FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay$1.run(FirebaseInAppMessagingDisplay.java:288) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:815) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:104) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:207) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5769) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:789) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:679)

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belrvncommented, Jun 26, 2020

Not sure yet, but it looks like it happens only for release version… For debug version seems fine. Need to double check, but I will probably tell it more next week

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