MySQLValidConnectionChecker broken -> NullPointerException

MySQLValidConnectionChecker does not work due to NullPointerException caused by the following code:

Integer status = (Integer) ping.invoke(c, params);
if (status.intValue() < 0)

Because the mysql driver ping method has signature of:

public void ping() throws java.sql.SQLException;

which means status will be null.

Here is an example stacktrace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.vendor.MySQLValidConnectionChecker.isValidConnection(MySQLValidConnectionChecker.java:61)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.BaseWrapperManagedConnectionFactory.isValidConnection(BaseWrapperManagedConnectionFactory.java:482)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.BaseWrapperManagedConnection.checkValid(BaseWrapperManagedConnection.java:263)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.local.LocalManagedConnectionFactory.matchManagedConnections(LocalManagedConnectionFactory.java:183)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.InternalManagedConnectionPool.getConnection(InternalManagedConnectionPool.java:166)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.JBossManagedConnectionPool$BasePool.getConnection(JBossManagedConnectionPool.java:534)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.BaseConnectionManager2.getManagedConnection(BaseConnectionManager2.java:395)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.TxConnectionManager.getManagedConnection(TxConnectionManager.java:297)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.BaseConnectionManager2.allocateConnection(BaseConnectionManager2.java:447)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.BaseConnectionManager2$ConnectionManagerProxy.allocateConnection(BaseConnectionManager2.java:874)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrapperDataSource.getConnection(WrapperDataSource.java:103)
at org.hibernate.connection.DatasourceConnectionProvider.getConnection(DatasourceConnectionProvider.java:59)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.openConnection(AbstractBatcher.java:424)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext.connect(JDBCContext.java:162)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext.connection(JDBCContext.java:97)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.prepareQueryStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:86)
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