Internal application error - GetElementByID

[eisaachsen]

I am using Java to access an EA model.  Here is a small snippet of my code.  I want to be able to get a package's parent's GUID, but I get a java.lang.exception (Internal application error) when GetElementByID is called.  The parentID just before it fails is 1.  What am I doing wrong?

int parentID = pkg.GetParentID();
System.out.printf("parentID=%d\n", parentID);
Element parentElement = repository.GetElementByID(parentID);
pw.print(parentElement.GetElementGUID());

[g.makulik]

Did you check

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Element parentElement = repository.GetElementByID(parentID); returned a valid result and/or

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parentElement.GetElementGUID() executes correctly?

[Eve]

You've got a Package ID not an element id. You want to use GetPackageByID (which returns a Package).