Null options are not permitted for this Api

[ar2rsawseen]

Keep getting:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main java.lang.NullPointerException: Null options are not permitted for this Api at com.google.android.gms.internal.fq.b(Unknown Source) at com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient$Builder.addApi(Unknown Source) at com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.googleplaygame.GameHelper.createApiClientBuilder(GameHelper.java:286)

the fix seems to be, not passing mPlusOptions

if (0 != (mRequestedClients & CLIENT_PLUS)) {
            if(mPlusApiOptions != null)
                builder.addApi(Plus.API, mPlusApiOptions);
            else
                builder.addApi(Plus.API);
            builder.addScope(Plus.SCOPE_PLUS_LOGIN);
}

Is this a problem in my code, or something changes in Google Play Services?

[dinosoeren]

At the beginning of the GameHelper class, you instantiate mPlusApiOptions and define it as null, so there's no reason it would pass anything else.

    // Api options to use when adding each API, null for none
    GamesOptions mGamesApiOptions = GamesOptions.builder().build();
    PlusOptions mPlusApiOptions = null;
    NoOptions mAppStateApiOptions = null;

[ar2rsawseen]

@swalls yes I understand that, my question would be, why it seems that nobody but me is having this problem, if it is done in GameHelper by default?

[dinosoeren]

@ar2rsawseen Oh, sorry. I assumed you knew you're not the only one getting it. I got the same NullPointerException once I declared this in my extending class:

public AndroidGame() {
     super(BaseGameActivity.CLIENT_ALL);
}

And I subsequently had to remove mPlusApiOptions from the .addApi declaration in order for my code to work again. Before declaring CLIENT_ALL, it was working fine for some reason. But I needed to integrate more than just the GAMES api at that point.

[gguuss]

I'll look into this the issue: I have seen in recent updates that if you pass null as ApiOptions, it can break. The fix is to initialize ApiOptions.

[mpost]

Just wanted to chim that i have the same NPE issue. I am using CLIENT_ALL as well and am now declaring the PlusOptions by default:

PlusOptions mPlusApiOptions = PlusOptions.builder().build();

[mpost]

The current version has simply removed to pass the plusOptions. That is probably bad since the method setPlusApiOptions(..) is now broken.

[gguuss]

You need to add the APIs you are using in the API client builder along with the identifier for the API and not null, for example:

    GoogleApiClient.Builder builder = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(
            mActivity, this, this);
        builder.addApi(Games.API, mGamesApiOptions);
        builder.addScope(Games.SCOPE_GAMES);
        builder.addApi(Plus.API);
        builder.addScope(Plus.SCOPE_PLUS_LOGIN);

    mGoogleApiClientBuilder = builder;