NPE when post image along with text caption via facebook SDK - android

I want to post image along with text caption via facebook SDK.
I am referring to the solution posted here.
Android post picture to Facebook wall
However, I am getting the following error.
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:104)
at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:48)
at com.facebook.android.Util.openUrl(Util.java:173)
at com.facebook.android.Facebook.request(Facebook.java:751)
at com.xxx.yyy.gui.share.ShareDialogFactory.shareThroughFacebook(ShareDialogFactory.java:170)
I had verified my code against the previous posted solution.
private static void shareThroughFacebook(final Context context, final File file, final int heartbeatForShare) {
final Facebook facebook = new Facebook("285243934881501");
// Login.
facebook.authorize((Activity)context, new String[] { "publish_stream" }, new DialogListener() {
#Override
public void onComplete(Bundle values) {
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "onComplete");
}
#Override
public void onFacebookError(FacebookError error) {
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "onFacebookError");
}
#Override
public void onError(DialogError e) {
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "onError");
}
#Override
public void onCancel() {
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "onCancel");
}
});
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "STEP 1");
final byte[] data = JPEG2ByteArray(file);
final Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putString(Facebook.TOKEN, facebook.getAccessToken());
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "data length is " + data.length);
bundle.putByteArray("picture", data);
bundle.putString("message", "this-is-message");
bundle.putString("caption", "this-is-caption");
// I can reach till here!
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "STEP 2");
try {
// NPE happens right here!!!
facebook.request("me/photos", bundle, "POST");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "FileNotFoundException");
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "MalformedURLException");
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e1) {
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "IOException");
e1.printStackTrace();
}
android.util.Log.i("CHEOK", "STEP 3");
}
I can confirm my byte array is non-zero length. I do not receive any callback during authorize, not sure whether this is correct behaviour. Note, the code shareThroughFacebook is invoked from a Dialog.
Is there any other steps I had missed out?

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