encodeSamples() raises null exception

[Chan Lee]

Wonder if anyone encountered 'null' exception out of 'encodeSamples()' method.
I think I must miss something in rush - will appreciate if someone can review this:

  public void encode2FLAC (int rawAudio, File flacFile) {
    FLACEncoder flacEncoder = new FLACEncoder();
    EncodingConfiguration eConf = new EncodingConfiguration();
    StreamConfiguration sConf = new StreamConfiguration(1, 100, 1000, 16000, 16);
    FLACFileOutputStream flacOutput = new FLACFileOutputStream(flacFile);

    flacEncoder.setStreamConfiguration(sConf);
    flacEncoder.setEncodingConfiguration(eConf);
    flacEncoder.setOutputStream(flacOutput);

    try {
      flacEncoder.openFLACStream();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      Log.e(getClass().getName(), ".encode2Flac(): can't open FLAC output:" + e.getMessage());
    }

    int bufSize = 500;
    int offset, encoded, blkIndex = 0;
    int buf =  new int;
    int toEncode = rawAudio.length;
    Log.d(getClass().getName(), ".encode2Flac():Encode raw data=" + toEncode);

    while (toEncode >= bufSize) {
      offset = blkIndex * bufSize;
      Log.d(getClass().getName(), ".encode2Flac():blkIndex=" + blkIndex +", offset=" + offset);
      for (int i=0; i<bufSize; i++) {
        buf_ = rawAudio;
      }
      blkIndex++;
      toEncode -= bufSize;
      if (!flacEncoder.addSamples(buf, bufSize)) {
        Log.d(getClass().getName(), ".encode2Flac():Can't add samples");
      }
      encoded = 0;
      try {
        if (toEncode > 0) {
          encoded = flacEncoder.encodeSamples(bufSize, false);
        }
        else {
          encoded = flacEncoder.encodeSamples(bufSize, true);
        }
      } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e(getClass().getName(), ".encode2Flac(): can't encode 500. Err:" + e.getMessage());
      }
      Log.d(getClass().getName(), ".encode2Flac(): encoded(500 expected)=" + encoded);
    }

The null exception was reported from the above Log message._

[Preston Lacey]

greetings clsf,
   Could you post more of the message, as well as tell me which version you're using? That might help me figure out what's going on. I don't see anything in your code that should be causing that, and haven't seen that issue myself yet.
On a side note, it does appear that your loop may leave samples unencoded, if the original toEncode is not a multiple of bufSize(unless of course you're handling this case in code not posted).