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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
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+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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+ *
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+ */
+
+package javax.xml.xpath;
+
+import java.io.StringReader;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactoryConfigurationException;
+
+import org.testng.Assert;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+/*
+ * @bug 4992805
+ * @summary Test XPath.evaluate(expression,source,returnType) throws NPE if returnType is null.
+ */
+public class Bug4992805 {
+
+    private static String expression = "/widgets/widget[@name='a']/@quantity";
+
+    // test for XPath.evaluate(java.lang.String expression, InputSource source,
+    // QName returnType)
+    // source is null , should throw NPE
+    @Test
+    public void testXPath30() throws Exception {
+        try {
+            createXPath().evaluate(expression, new InputSource(new StringReader("<root/>")), null);
+            Assert.fail();
+        } catch (NullPointerException e) {
+            ; // as expected
+        }
+    }
+
+    private XPath createXPath() throws XPathFactoryConfigurationException {
+        XPathFactory xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
+        Assert.assertNotNull(xpathFactory);
+        XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath();
+        Assert.assertNotNull(xpath);
+        return xpath;
+    }
+}