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Deeplink parameter makes Lyft app crash

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, java
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported deeplink with only pickup[address] and compare it with the logged redirect and Android stack trace. The trace names MainActivity, DeepLinkManager, GenericDeepLinkRouter, and RideTypesDeepLinkRoute, but the report does not identify a repository file or test; confirm whether this SDK owns the crash before defining a fix and acceptance test.

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Description

If I specify only pickup[address] the Lyft app crashes with this error:

06-18 23:06:50.786 27039-27039/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: me.lyft.android, PID: 27039
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {me.lyft.android/me.lyft.android.ui.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:3103)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:3134)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1388)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
     Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.lyft.common.Objects.c(SourceFile:71)
        at me.lyft.android.ui.RideTypesDeepLinkRoute.forwardGeocode(SourceFile:178)
        at me.lyft.android.ui.RideTypesDeepLinkRoute.route(SourceFile:97)
        at com.lyft.android.deeplinks.GenericDeepLinkRouter.routeAction(SourceFile:63)
        at com.lyft.android.deeplinks.GenericDeepLinkRouter.routeDeepLink(SourceFile:18)
        at com.lyft.android.deeplinks.DeepLinkManager.a(SourceFile:68)
        at com.lyft.android.deeplinks.DeepLinkManager.a(SourceFile:22)
        at me.lyft.android.ui.MainActivity.checkForDeepLink(SourceFile:496)
        at me.lyft.android.ui.MainActivity.onResume(SourceFile:326)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnResume(Instrumentation.java:1258)
        at android.app.Activity.performResume(Activity.java:6327)

Here is the log on my app (just before the crash):

I/Taxi: redirect to lyft://ridetype?id=lyft&pickup[address]=via borgo palazzo 1, Bergamo&destination[latitude]=45.467237&destination[longitude]=9.189705
I/ActivityManager: START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=lyft://ridetype?id=lyft&pickup[latitude]=via borgo palazzo 1, Bergamo&destination[latitude]=45.467237&destination[longitude]=9.189705 flg=0x10000000 cmp=me.lyft.android/.ui.MainActivity} from uid 10085 on display 0

I know it's not strictly related to this SDK but I didn't know where to open this elsewhere.

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