nullpointerexception on unconventional query

[christopheleroy]

On a big SELECT /union/ SELECT / union ... query, which the parser declares is unparseable (but works when executing "plain vanilla"), the query cannot be executed because I get:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.novartis.opensource.yada.QueryManager.prepQueryForExecution(QueryManager.java:702)
at com.novartis.opensource.yada.QueryManager.prepQueriesForExecution(QueryManager.java:857)
at com.novartis.opensource.yada.QueryManager.processRequest(QueryManager.java:189)
at com.novartis.opensource.yada.QueryManager.(QueryManager.java:137)
at com.novartis.opensource.yada.Service.execute(Service.java:595)

QueryManager - line 702 is doing a:

yq.getType().equals(...)

yq.getTypes() returns null, because yq.type has not been set.

yq.type should probably default to some "UNDERTMINED" value that does not fail its '.equas()'
or perhaps yq.getTypes() should never return null....

[christopheleroy]

everything works again when I surround my query with SELECT * FROM ( the original big union query)
etc.

It would be really nice to upgrade the parser (it fails with 8.6.1. because there is a lot of postgres peculiarities) but a NullPointerException should never happen in QueryManager etc.