Runtime Exception: "Please specify a service class to monitor. Use #createIntent as helper."

[kaivnlp]

I am getting this exception when i am trying to create a notification service extending
"com.octo.android.robospice.notification.SpiceNotificationService"
Error occurs when one of the fragments tries to start the service.Looked at the code and error appears obvious , Can you please confirm if this is the issue.

Check on "spiceService" variable is before it is assigned a value..

@SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes", "deprecation" })
    @Override
    public final void onStart(final Intent intent, final int startId) {
        super.onStart(intent, startId);
        notificationId = intent.getIntExtra(BUNDLE_KEY_NOTIFICATION_ID, DEFAULT_ROBOSPICE_NOTIFICATION_ID);
        requestClass = (Class<?>) intent.getSerializableExtra(BUNDLE_KEY_REQUEST_CLASS);
        if (spiceServiceClass == null) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Please specify a service class to monitor. Use #createIntent as helper.");
        }
        requestCacheKey = intent.getStringExtra(BUNDLE_KEY_REQUEST_CACHE_KEY);
        spiceServiceClass = (Class<? extends SpiceService>) intent.getSerializableExtra(BUNDLE_KEY_SERVICE_CLASS);
        foreground = intent.getBooleanExtra(BUNDLE_KEY_FOREGROUND, true);

        spiceManager = new SpiceManager(spiceServiceClass);
        notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        spiceManager.start(this);
        spiceManager.addListenerIfPending(requestClass, requestCacheKey, new NotificationRequestListener());

        if (foreground) {
            startForeground(notificationId, onCreateForegroundNotification());
        }
    }

[stephanenicolas]

Gloops. This looks terrible ;)

Can you confirm that moving the assignment up corrects the bug ? Did you try it yourself ?

[stephanenicolas]

Thx for submitting this bug, it has been fixed and will be released in 1.4.13. If you wanna try our snapshot, that would help.