Thread: JFileChooser provides null string

I'm getting a NullPointerException in my code. I've use the debugger and traced it to the chooser.getName() line. This is returning a null value to me.

Does anyone have an idea where I went wrong? If it makes a difference, I'm using Linux Mint and the file selected is on a cifs network folder. Perhaps Java is having some problems working with my OS? I can browse the folders fine.

Note, I have not initialized currentFile before this point. Not sure if that would make a difference.

private String currentFile;
private boolean setFile() // returns true if there is an error
{
  JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
  chooser.setFileFilter( new FileNameExtensionFilter(
    "XML files", "xml"));
 
  if (chooser.showOpenDialog(this) != JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
    return true;
 
  currentFile = chooser.getName();
  return false;
}

Whoops! Thanks for the easy fix.

I was reading about this class here:
JFileChooser (Java Platform SE 7 )
I guess I skipped over the getSelectedFile() part of it.