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  • Parul

    Member
    August 30, 2018 at 12:04 pm

    Hello Chanchal,

    This error is caused by a line of code that is trying to use an object that has not been instantiated, or an object’s attribute that has not been initialized.

    NOTE: If the field Site was left empty, it will generate the error message as well.

     

    Thanks.

    Parul

  • madhulika shah

    Member
    September 6, 2018 at 6:59 am

    Hi Chanchal,

    This is the equivalent of the Null Pointer Exception in Java.

    This error is caused by a line of code that is trying to use an object that has not been instantiated, or an object's attribute that has not been initialized.

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks.

  • shariq

    Member
    September 14, 2018 at 10:17 pm

    Hi,

    Mostly this error occurs when you have not initialize the list/set/map etc and using their methods.

    When you query any sobject with no records and then using its fields somewhere in code without null or empty check

    Hope this helps.

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