Null pointer exception on Driver.Close line

[imbeg...@gmail.com]

Hi All

Please bear with me for asking a silly question but iam curious to know the technical reason for why iam getting 'Null pointer exception' for 

literally a simple one line code. I have written code so many time but i was trying to check whether 

my system (new this time) has all files and exe's to run the Selenium Code on my system. 

So, was trying to add/download the files as and when it started giving me error and fixing it up.

What iam trying to do : I wrote the script to check if all files/jars/testng.exe are there to open the gmail page in my system and close it.

Code :->

package pkg;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.SystemProperty;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TC_01 {

ChromeDriver driver;

@BeforeMethod

public void ST(){

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\chromedriver.exe");

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("https://www.google.com/gmail/about/#");

}

@Test

public void TM(){

}

@AfterMethod

public void CM(){

driver.quit();    // Getting error at this point

}

}

What error iam getting :  Getting on line 26 : driver.quit

Starting ChromeDriver 2.32.498550 (9dec58e66c31bcc53a9ce3c7226f0c1c5810906a) on port 40532

Only local connections are allowed.

Sep 20, 2017 1:35:39 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession

INFO: Detected dialect: OSS

FAILED CONFIGURATION: @AfterMethod CM

java.lang.NullPointerException

at pkg.TC_01.CM(TC_01.java:26)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:108)

at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:523)

at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:224)

at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:731)

at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:877)

at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1201)

at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125)

at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109)

at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:776)

at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:634)

at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:425)

at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:420)

at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:385)

at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:334)

at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)

at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)

at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1318)

at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1243)

at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1161)

at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1129)

at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)

at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)

at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)

PASSED: TM

My control is not reaching there. Any guidance would be appreciated. 

Thanks in advance.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Please change

public void ST(){

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\chromedriver.exe");

    ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

    driver.get("https://www.google.com/gmail/about/#");

}

 

To:

public void ST(){

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\chromedriver.exe");

    driver = new ChromeDriver();

    driver.get("https://www.google.com/gmail/about/#");

}

 

The problem is that in your ST() you are shadowing out the class level data member driver

 

Thanks & Regards

Krishnan Mahadevan

 

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