Null pointer on toString

Hello

I have created a custom packet

public XmlStringBuilder toXML() {

XmlStringBuilder buf = new XmlStringBuilder();

buf.halfOpenElement(ELEMENT);

buf.optAttribute(“to”, getTo());

buf.optAttribute(“from”, getFrom());

buf.attribute(“t”, type);

buf.attribute(“sid”,ackedforid);

buf.attribute(“time”, String.valueOf(acktime));

buf.attribute(“q”, String.valueOf(quick));

buf.rightAngleBracket();

buf.append(getExtensionsXML());

// Add the error sub-packet, if there is one.

appendErrorIfExists(buf);

buf.closeElement(ELEMENT);

return buf;

}

public static Ack parseAck(XmlPullParser parser)

throws Exception {

ParserUtils.assertAtStartTag(parser);

final int initialDepth = parser.getDepth();

Ack.Type type = Ack.Type.mra;

String typeString = parser.getAttributeValue("", “t”);

if (typeString != null && !typeString.equals("")) {

type = Ack.Type.fromString(typeString);

}

Ack ack = new Ack(type);

ack.setTo(ParserUtils.getJidAttribute(parser, “to”));

ack.setFrom(ParserUtils.getJidAttribute(parser, “from”));

ack.setStanzaId(parser.getAttributeValue("", “id”));

ack.setAckedforid(parser.getAttributeValue("",“sid”));

ack.setAcktime(Integer.parseInt(parser.getAttributeValue("",“time”)));

ack.setQuick(Boolean.parseBoolean(parser.getAttributeValue("",“q”)));

return ack;

}

When the server send response as

response.toXml().toString fails with null pointer at

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method ‘int java.lang.CharSequence.length()’ on a null object reference

at xmpp.util.LazyStringBuilder.length(LazyStringBuilder.java:73)

at xmpp.util.LazyStringBuilder.toString(LazyStringBuilder.java:101)

at xmpp.util.XmlStringBuilder.toString(XmlStringBuilder.java:455)

at xmpp.packet.Stanza.toString(Stanza.java:471)

at com.griffin.messenger.ConnectionsManager.tcpConnectionReceivedData(ConnectionsM anager.java:1622)

What wrong am i doing