I have java 1.8.0_171 and the following code in DataUtils.java class:
List<BigDecimal> list = new ArrayList<>();
list.add(new BigDecimal(0));
list.add(new BigDecimal(-2));
list.add(new BigDecimal(10));
list.add(new BigDecimal(200));
if ((Collections.max(list).subtract(Collections.min(list)).compareTo(new BigDecimal(0)) != 0)) {
.....
}
And I have the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Collections.max(Unknown Source) at com.util.DataUtils.calculateRetsentindex(DataUtils.java:23)
The default jdk is set on Eclipse correctly, clean-rebuild don't fix. Please, advice
This means that in your collection you probably have added a null element. In your example:
List<BigDecimal> list = new ArrayList<>();
list.add(new BigDecimal(0));
list.add(new BigDecimal(-2));
list.add(new BigDecimal(10));
list.add(new BigDecimal(200));
if ((Collections.max(list).subtract(Collections.min(list)).compareTo(new BigDecimal(0)) != 0)) {
System.out.println("OK");
}
It prints "OK" properly. If you change the first object to null though:
list.add(null);
You get similar exception to yours.
And if you do Collections.max(null);
you get the exact same exception. So I guess your list is not initialized when you do the call.