RequestContext.getRequestChannelId() seems doesn't work

Below codes doen’t work

for (int i = 0, j = navList.size(); i < j; i++) {

                 Channel chn = (Channel) navList.get(i);

                 String channelName = chn.getData().getName();

                 String channelId = chn.getContentManagementId().getId();

                

                 RequestContext rqCtx = PageUtil.getCurrentRequestContext(pageContext);// get request context from somewhere

                 String currntChannelId = (rqCtx.getRequestChannelId()== null? null:rqCtx.getRequestChannelId().getId());

                 String link = XSLPageUtil.buildLinkURI(rqCtx, channelId, "", "");

                 if(currntChannelId!= null && currntChannelId.equals(channelId)) {

                     %>

                     <tr>

                            <td class="nav_menuitem_selected"><a href="<%=link %>"><%=channelName %></a></td>

                  </tr>

                     <%

                 } else {

 

Below codes works

for (int i = 0, j = navList.size(); i < j; i++) {

                 Channel chn = (Channel) navList.get(i);

                 String channelName = chn.getData().getName();

                 String channelId = chn.getContentManagementId().getId();

                

                 RequestContext rqCtx = PageUtil.getCurrentRequestContext(pageContext);// get request context from somewhere

                 String currntChannelId = null;

                 Channel currntChannel = rqCtx.getRequestedChannel();

               if(currntChannel != null) {

                   currntChannelId = currntChannel.getContentManagementId()

                                                  .getId();

               }

                 String link = XSLPageUtil.buildLinkURI(rqCtx, channelId, "", "");

                 if(currntChannelId!= null && currntChannelId.equals(channelId)) {

                     %>