[resolved] tHDFSPut: NullPointerException

[Anonymous]

I'm getting this error in tHDFSPut:
Starting job EmployeeTest at 10:35 24/03/2017.
[statistics] connecting to socket on port 23962
[statistics] connected
Exception in component tHDFSPut_1
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at local_deployment_config.employeetest_0_1.EmployeeTest.tFileInputDelimited_1Process(EmployeeTest.java:1099)
 at local_deployment_config.employeetest_0_1.EmployeeTest.runJobInTOS(EmployeeTest.java:2179)
 at local_deployment_config.employeetest_0_1.EmployeeTest.main(EmployeeTest.java:2036)
[statistics] disconnected
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Djava.vendor="Sun Microsystems Inc."
Job EmployeeTest ended at 10:35 24/03/2017. [exit code=1]
The code at line 1099:
fs_tHDFSPut_1 = org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(
       new java.net.URI(conf_tHDFSPut_1
         .get("fs.default.name")), conf_tHDFSPut_1,
       username_tHDFSPut_1);
I'm new to Talend Big Data Studio. Ideas?
Thanks, Gary

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Solved it. I was using a tHDFSConnection component, which wasn't working. I changed to use the repository connection, which worked fine.