Creating a UrlEncodedFormEntity from a List of NameValuePairs throws a NullPointerException

Question

I\'m creating a unit test to try out the servlet I just created.

@Test
public void test() throws ParseException, IOException {

  HttpClient client = new Defaul         


        

Answer 1

Sorry for the stupid question, just solved it by adding the utf-8 format.

post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, "utf-8"));

Creating a UrlEncodedFormEntity without passing the format will use DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET which is ISO-8859-1

Which baffles me... what's causing it to throw NullPointerException?