How to make context not null in onCreate()?

I’m trying to get the context in the onCreate() method, to use in my RoomDb repository, but it keeps giving me a NullPointerException.

import android.app.Application;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import com.example.csc202assignment.database.TripRepository;

public class TripApplication extends Application {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(){
        super.onCreate();
        TripRepository.initialise(this);
    }
}

repository

import android.content.Context;

import androidx.lifecycle.LiveData;
import androidx.room.Room;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;


public class TripRepository {
    private static TripRepository INSTANCE = null;
    private final String DATABASE_NAME = "trip-database";
    private Context context;

    private TripRepository(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    //The NPE
    TripDatabase database = Room.databaseBuilder(
            context.getApplicationContext(),
            TripDatabase.class,DATABASE_NAME).build();

    TripDao tripDao = database.tripDao();

    void deleteTrips(){
        tripDao.deleteTrips();
    }

    void delete(Trip trip){
        tripDao.delete(trip);
    }

    void insertTrip(Trip trip){
        tripDao.insertTrip(trip);
    }

    void updateTrip(Trip trip){
        tripDao.updateTrip(trip);
    }

    public LiveData<List<Trip>> getAll(){
        return tripDao.getAll();
    }

    LiveData<Trip> getTrip(UUID id){
        return tripDao.getTrip(id);
    }

    public static void initialise(Context context){
        if(INSTANCE==null){
            INSTANCE = new TripRepository(context);
        }
    }

     public static TripRepository get() throws IllegalStateException {
         try {
             return INSTANCE;
         } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
             System.out.println("TripRepository must be initialised");
         }
         return INSTANCE;
     }
}

I’ve tried to look through other explanations, but I just can’t wrap my head around it. I’ve tried GetApplicationContext, and this. I’ve seen people saying to call the getApplicationContext at the end of the onCreate() method, but isn’t that what I’m doing?

Answer

You are trying to initialize the database field before the context field. Even though you’ve put it after the constructor, the initializing code is still executed before the constructor. You should do it like this

private Context context;
private TripDatabase database

private TripRepository(Context context) {
    this.context = context;
    this.database = Room.databaseBuilder(
        context.getApplicationContext(),
        TripDatabase.class,DATABASE_NAME).build();
}

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