Epoxy: NullPointerException in RecyclerView

[harshitwynk]

Hi

I am getting following crash in Recyclerview while using Epoxy

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$ViewHolder.shouldIgnore()' on a null object reference
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayoutStep3(RecyclerView.java:3951)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayout(RecyclerView.java:3652)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.onLayout(RecyclerView.java:4194)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat.setChildFrame(LinearLayoutCompat.java:1645)
at androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat.layoutVertical(LinearLayoutCompat.java:1499)
at androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat.onLayout(LinearLayoutCompat.java:1407)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$LayoutManager.layoutDecoratedWithMargins(RecyclerView.java:9322)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager.layoutChunk(LinearLayoutManager.java:1615)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager.fill(LinearLayoutManager.java:1517)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager.onLayoutChildren(LinearLayoutManager.java:612)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayoutStep2(RecyclerView.java:3924)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayout(RecyclerView.java:3641)
at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.onLayout(RecyclerView.java:4194)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout.onLayout(ConstraintLayout.java:1915)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1635)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1544)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1635)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1544)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1791)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1635)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1544)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261)
at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.onLayout(DecorView.java:758)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:19590)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:6053)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:2484)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2200)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1386)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6733)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:911)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:723)
2018-10-20 19:24:30.408 20730-20730/com.wynk.basic E/AndroidRuntime: at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:658)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:897)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)

Epoxy version used : 2.19.0
Language : kotlin
Android version : 8.0.0

[yen223]

I encountered this a while back.

In my case the root cause was duplicate IDs among list items. Fixed it by ensuring IDs were truly unique.

Another workaround was to disable item animations

[elihart]

yes this issue is most likely caused by not having proper ids (either ids that change, or are duplicates)

make sure your ids are stable, and I would recommend enabling the debug setting to filter and crash on duplicate ids so you can catch this in debug early (or enable filtering ids in prod but log the warning somewhere)

[pcrish]

I found this issue when using fragment, the issue was that I was trying to replace fragment, I fixed it by putting FrameLayout and replacing fragment in it.

[kalyakiplangat]

if you have include tag that includes the RecyclerView Layout, make sure that the include tag has an id and use findViewById

[E-Learning567]

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.bloodbankmanagementsystem/com.example.bloodbankmanagementsystem.Activities.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.view.View androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.findViewById(int)' on a null object reference

[E-Learning567]

How to fix it ?

[E-Learning567]

Kindly help me