That's because sometime getPlace returns null and calling getLang over null throws up either null pointer exception or noSuchMethodError. You need to filter out those statuses which doesn't include location data.
Thanks Best Regards On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Jo Sunad <naidnitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been trying to filter for GeoLocation, Place or even Time Zone and I > keep getting null values. I think I got one Place in 20 minutes of the app > running (without any filters on tweets). > > Is this normal? Do I have to try querying rather than filtering? > > my code is following TD's example... > > val stream = TwitterUtils.... > > val hashtags = stream.map (status => status.getPlace().getName(), > status.getText()) > > getText, getFollowers, etc all work fine, I just don't get anything > location based (and getLang() for some reason throws a noMethodError). > > Thanks for the help! >
