Re: [jCharts-users] Problems (NullPointer or ArrayIndex) if no data available for barchart

[Nathaniel G. A. <nat...@ya...>]

If there is no data what do you expect to see in a chart?  What would be on the y-axis if there
are no data elements?

I would think your logic, would see there was no data, and stream a placeholder image instead of
the chart or a chart with a few zero values and labels of empty Strings.




--- tam...@ub... wrote:
> hi all
> 
> we are generating clusteredbarcharts based on the result of some database selects, so the data
> to display is not static.
> we have a problem if there is no data. I have tried different ways to tweak this issue, but
> always ran into troubles:
> 
> I'm using jcharts 0.7.4 (the posted methods are the same in 0.7.5) 
> 
> - legendlabels and data array (double[][]) are null 
> 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at org.jCharts.chartData.AxisChartDataSet.getNumberOfDataSets(AxisChartDataSet.java:136)
> 	at org.jCharts.chartData.AxisDataSeries.addIAxisPlotDataSet(AxisDataSeries.java:166)
> 
> code which throws exception [AxisChartDataSet.getNumberOfDataSets]:
> 	public final int getNumberOfDataSets()
> 	{
> 		return this.data.length;
> 	}
> 
> - legenlabels is null, data array is new double[0][0];
> 
> java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
> 	at org.jCharts.chartData.DataSet.getNumberOfDataItems(DataSet.java:148)
> 	at org.jCharts.chartData.AxisDataSeries.addIAxisPlotDataSet(AxisDataSeries.java:168)
> 
> code which throws exception [DataSet.getNumberOfDataItems]:
> 	public int getNumberOfDataItems()
> 	{
> 		return this.data[ 0 ].length;
> 	}
> 
> is there any reason, why null and/or length is not checked in those methods ?? 
> 
> is there any other way to get a empty chart, I do set 
> setUserDefinedScale(0, 2)
> setNumItems(5)
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> tamer
> 
> 
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