NullPointerException on Bukkit.getItemFactory()

I'm working on writing a serialization method for items when I ran into a problem. This segment of code:

Code:java

public static String serialize(ItemStack stack)
    {
        String serial = stack.getType().name() + "|" +
                stack.getAmount() + "|" +
                stack.getDurability() + "|";
 
        if (!stack.hasItemMeta())
            serial = serial + "||";
        else
        {
            serial = serial + stack.getItemMeta().getDisplayName() + "|";
 
            for (String s : stack.getItemMeta().getLore())
                serial = serial + s + "\\";
 
            serial = serial.substring(0, serial.length() - 1);
 
            serial = serial + "|";
        }
 
        return serial;
    }

is throwing a NullPointerException on the if statement. That made no sense to me since stack is clearly not null as it is referenced just beforehand and not modified. The exception propagates back to the hasItemMeta method in the ItemStack class, which is a one line method that checks the ItemFactory.

Code:java

    public boolean hasItemMeta() {
        return !Bukkit.getItemFactory().equals(meta, null);
    }

This just made it more confusing, because that means that ItemFactory has to be null. Some more digging and I found that simply calling Bukkit.getItemFactory() throws a NullPointerException. Does anybody have a clue why this could be?

So apparently I can't run JUnit tests on Bukkit plugins because Bukkit.anything is null in that situation. That's unfortunate.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

SaxSalute

Is this issue resolved then? Because it looks like your issue was caused by trying to JUnit test.

 

It is. I thought I would at least post what I figured out in case any other poor soul tried to do some unit testing.