[Mondrian] Cube getTimeDimension use when Cube has no Time dimension

[Julian Hyde]

Richard,

Please log a bug.

Julian

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> [mailto:mondrian-bounces at pentaho.org] On Behalf Of Richard Emberson
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:43 PM
> To: 'Mondrian developer mailing list'
> Subject: [Mondrian] Cube getTimeDimension use when Cube has 
> no Time dimension
> 
> 
> The Cube interface has the method getTimeDimension()
> defined. A common usage pattern appearing in
> LastPeriodsFunDef, PeriodsToDateFunDef, XtdFunDef,
> OpeningClosingPeriodFunDef and ParallelPeriodFunDef
> is:
> 
> validator.getQuery().getCube().getTimeDimension().getHierarchy().
> 
> 
> If the Cube does not define a Time dimension, then all of these
> result in a NullPointerException rather than some
> Mondrian usage exception.
> 
> Granted, the above functions only make sense if a Time
> dimension is defined for the Cube, but there is no check.
> 
> Richard
> 
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