[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] Fix null reference exceptions in System.Data.DataView

[tsureshkumar]

Marc Haisenko wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I just noticed that a bug in DataView.cs is still/again present in the current 
> revision (r46988, svn://svn.myrealbox.com/source/trunk/mcs/)
> 
> The problem is that a variable, rowCache, is often set to null but no null 
> checks are done. That way a fresh instance of DataView throws a 
> NullReferenceException e.g. when reading the Count property as it simply does 
> "return rowCache.Length;".
> 
> The fix is to never set the variable to null but to an empty array. The 
> attached patch implements this fix (only three lines need that fix). I 
> already sent a patch to fix the very same bug on 11.11.2004, it seems like it 
> never got included...

FYI, the patch had been in earlier. See the changelog

[Snip]
2004-12-01  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel at ximian.com>

         * DataView.cs: Patch from Marc Haisenko that ensures that rowCache
         is never null.
[/Snip]

somehow, due to some other fixes/re-org/cleanup the patch went cleaned 
up :-(.

> 
> C'ya,
> 	Marc
> 
> 

Thanks,
suresh.