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system.nullreference exception object reference

T52K-BIB — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:05:36 GMT

hi, I'm New to Revit API and learning C# recently and below error comes to whileRun Program.

Anyone can help me.

"system.nullreferenceexception object reference"

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Diagnostics; using Autodesk.Revit.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.Revit.Attributes; using Autodesk.Revit.DB; using Autodesk.Revit.UI; using Autodesk.Revit.UI.Selection; namespace COBie_Door_Space { [Transaction(TransactionMode.Manual)] public class Command : IExternalCommand { public Result Execute( ExternalCommandData commandData, ref string message, ElementSet elements) { UIApplication uiapp = commandData.Application; UIDocument uidoc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument; Application app = uiapp.Application; Document doc = uidoc.Document; // Use OfCategory method to apply an ElementCategoryFilter and fine elements in the Doors category FilteredElementCollector col = new FilteredElementCollector(doc); ICollection<Element> doors = col.OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_Doors).ToElements(); try { // Filtered element collector is iterable foreach (Element e in doors) { FamilyInstance Fi = e as FamilyInstance; Parameter getparam = Fi.LookupParameter("Comments"); using (Transaction tx = new Transaction(doc, "getparam")) { tx.Start("Parameter Exchange"); //set parameter string s = Fi.FromRoom.Name; getparam.Set(s); tx.Commit(); } } return Result.Succeeded; } catch (Exception ex) { // Code did not execute successfully, display exception error TaskDialog.Show("Exception Caught", "Exception: " + ex); // return Failed return Result.Failed; } } } }

Re: system.nullreference exception object reference

RPTHOMAS108 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:40:15 GMT

NullReferenceException is the most popular exception by far and a personal favourite of mine.

I assume it is occurring at a location where you’ve declared an object but not given it a value such as:
FamilyInstance Fi = e as FamilyInstance

Your collector has FamilySymbols and FamilyInstances as you’ve not set .WhereElementIsNotElementType. Traditionally this would cause InvalidCastException (my second favourite exception) but with the ‘as’ keyword it masks the problem resulting in a null.

So when you later use a member of Fi you get NullReferenceException.

Re: system.nullreference exception object reference

T52K-BIB — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:35:16 GMT

@RPTHOMAS108 Thanks now it's😃 Working!!.

#region Namespaces using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Diagnostics; using Autodesk.Revit.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.Revit.Attributes; using Autodesk.Revit.DB; using Autodesk.Revit.UI; using Autodesk.Revit.UI.Selection; #endregion namespace COBie_Door_Space { [Transaction(TransactionMode.Manual)] public class Command : IExternalCommand { public Result Execute( ExternalCommandData commandData, ref string message, ElementSet elements) { UIApplication uiapp = commandData.Application; UIDocument uidoc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument; Application app = uiapp.Application; Document doc = uidoc.Document; // Use OfCategory method to apply an ElementCategoryFilter and fine elements in the Doors category FilteredElementCollector col = new FilteredElementCollector(doc); ElementCategoryFilter filter = new ElementCategoryFilter(BuiltInCategory.OST_Doors); IList <Element> doors = col.WherePasses(filter).WhereElementIsNotElementType().ToElements(); try { // Filtered element collector is iterable foreach (Element e in doors) { Parameter getparam = e.LookupParameter("COBie.Component.Space"); using (Transaction tx = new Transaction(doc, "getparam")) { tx.Start("Parameter Exchange"); //set parameter FamilyInstance Fi = e as FamilyInstance; string s = Fi.FromRoom.Name; getparam.Set(s); tx.Commit(); } } return Result.Succeeded; } catch (Exception ex) { // Code did not execute successfully, display exception error TaskDialog.Show("Exception Caught", "Exception: " + ex); // return Failed return Result.Failed; } } } }