Turning on key>value type filter causes unexpected exception

[randoogle]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. click "Add" under Filter window
2. enter any key>value combination. Example "addr:housenumber">2 or lanes>2
3. activate filter, and exception error appears every time it is activated

What is the expected result?
I would expect to see objects to be selected or hidden, based on the filter parameters.
For example, if I'm looking for all roads with more than two lanes, I would expect a "lanes>2" filter to show them.

What happens instead?
Unexpected exception error message pops up, and nothing is filtered.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

This also seems to occur when I use the greater than ">" in a search rather than a filter.
Also, it doesn't seem to matter what data I download ahead of time. I even grabbed this section that had almost nothing in it, and I still get the error.

Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2014-01-29 15:23:51
Last Changed Author: Don-vip
Revision: 6767
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2014-01-29 16:18:16 +0100 (Wed, 29 Jan 2014)
Last Changed Rev: 6767

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (6767 en) Windows 7 64-Bit
Memory Usage: 60 MB / 247 MB (15 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.7.0_45, Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
VM arguments: [-Djava.security.policy=file:C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\security\javaws.policy, -DtrustProxy=true, -Xverify:remote, -Djnlpx.home=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin, -Djnlpx.origFilenameArg=C:\Users\randy\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\21\73111055-5adad566, -Djnlpx.remove=false, -Dsun.awt.warmup=true, -Xbootclasspath/a:C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\javaws.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\deploy.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\plugin.jar, -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true, -Djnlpx.splashport=1270, -Djnlp.application.href=http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm.jnlp, -Djnlpx.jvm=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe, -Djnlpx.vmargs=-Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Djnlp.application.href=http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm.jnlp]
Dataset consistency test: No problems found


java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.actions.search.SearchCompiler$ValueComparison.match(SearchCompiler.java:546)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.FilterMatcher.test(FilterMatcher.java:223)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.FilterMatcher.isDisabled(FilterMatcher.java:305)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.FilterWorker.doExecuteFilters(FilterWorker.java:48)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.FilterWorker.executeFilters(FilterWorker.java:32)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.FilterTableModel.executeFilters(FilterTableModel.java:87)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.FilterDialog.dataChanged(FilterDialog.java:321)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.event.DataChangedEvent.fire(DataChangedEvent.java:26)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.event.DatasetEventManager.fireConsolidatedEvents(DatasetEventManager.java:125)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.event.DatasetEventManager.access$300(DatasetEventManager.java:27)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.event.DatasetEventManager$1.run(DatasetEventManager.java:197)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport$2.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport$4.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport.enter(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Dialog.show(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.show(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.setVisible(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Window.setVisible(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Dialog.setVisible(Unknown Source)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.progress.PleaseWaitProgressMonitor$4.run(PleaseWaitProgressMonitor.java:172)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

[akks]

I confirm, it is reproducible, Ctrl-F search with "addr:housenumber">2 or lanes>2 gives this exception too.

Looking in the code to fix...

[akks]

In 6831/josm:

fix #9703: key>value in search or filter gave NPE for non-existing key