[udig-devel] splitting line segment

[Jody Garnett]

Gak you are having no end of fun ... I will start up IRC and see if we 
can chat this one through?
Jody
> Ok, got the problem.... but now I have a new one:
> I get an exception of the type:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at
> org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore$Writer.write(ShapefileDataStore.java:1587)
> 	at
> org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore$Writer.close(ShapefileDataStore.java:1463)
> 	at
> org.geotools.data.InProcessLockingManager$1.close(InProcessLockingManager.java:344)
> 	at
> org.geotools.data.AbstractFeatureStore.addFeatures(AbstractFeatureStore.java:232)
> 	at
> eu.hydrologis.jgrass.operation.splitlines.SplitLineOperation.op(SplitLineOperation.java:152)
> 	at
> net.refractions.udig.ui.operations.OpAction$RunJob.run(OpAction.java:180)
> 	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:58)
>
> Through debugging I notice that in the ShapefileDataStore the write
> method finds a feature without geometry...
>
>             // writing of Geometry
>             Geometry g = currentFeature.getDefaultGeometry();
>
> g after that line is null... which I can hardly believe...
>
> Any Idea about what I could have done wrong?
>