NullPointerException when return a member property in lazy delegate

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class TestLazy(val mValue: Int) {
    public val value by lazy { foo() }
    fun foo(): Int {
        try {
            return mValue
        } catch(e: NullPointerException) {
            // a null pointer exception will raise,but it will still return the right value
            return 0
        }
    }

Hi guys, when I run above code with latest version(beta-4584), it will raise a null pointer exception. I tried to replace
the foo() function to return a constant, then every thing just fine(of course…)

fun foo(): Int {
        return 1 // work as expected
}

I want to know what’s going wrong and how to correct it, sorry for my poor english, any help will be appreciated

Update: I know the usage of lazy delegate here looks like totally useless, so below is my exercise to advent code day7…which might answer your concern

abstract class CircuitObject() {
    public val value: Int by lazy { calcOutput() }
    abstract protected fun calcOutput(): Int
}

class Wire(val name: String, var src: CircuitObject?) : CircuitObject() {
    override fun calcOutput(): Int {
        return src!!.value
    }
}

class Signal(private val mValue: Int): CircuitObject() {
    override fun calcOutput(): Int {
        return mValue
    }
}
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Hi, I wasn’t able to reproduce NullPointerException in your first example. Could you refine, what do you do to make it happen?

Regarding the second example, NullPointerException can be thrown by src!! expression in Wire.calcOutput when src is null.

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Hi ilya, Thanks for your reply!

yes…after some debugging, it’s my own problem, sorry for posting some silly question :sweat_smile: