Project: Birt
Bug 197747 NullPointerException in XLS emitter
Reported: 2007-07-25 00:41:49 | Status: resolved fixed

NullPointException throw out when generate a report contains a hyperlink in XLS. The stack trace is: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.HTMLActionHandler.getRenderContext(HTMLActionHandler.java:336) at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.HTMLActionHandler.getURL(HTMLActionHandler.java:40) at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelEmitter.parseHyperLink(ExcelEmitter.java:338) at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelEmitter.startLabel(ExcelEmitter.java:249) the line 336 should be removed: actionHandler.getURL( act, null );

Files changed in fix:
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.prototype.excel/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/excel/ExcelEmitter.java