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Bug 124138

Summary: NPE in FieldCategory
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Component: UIAssignee: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P2 CC: eclipse, markus.kell.r
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: 3.2 M5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Tod Creasey CLA 2006-01-17 10:35:30 EST 
20060116

Not sure how I got this but I have no categories enabled

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.FieldCategory.compare(FieldCategory.java:87)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.TableSorter.compare(TableSorter.java:223)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.TableSorter.compare(TableSorter.java:225)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.CategorySorter.compare(CategorySorter.java:63)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.CategorySorter.compare(CategorySorter.java:96)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.SortUtil.partitionHelper(SortUtil.java:114)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.SortUtil.getFirst(SortUtil.java:74)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.SortUtil.getFirst(SortUtil.java:43)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.MarkerAdapter.buildAllMarkers(MarkerAdapter.java:215)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.MarkerView.updateForContentsRefresh(MarkerView.java:515)
	at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.MarkerView$MarkerProcessJob.run(MarkerView.java:172)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:58)
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-01-18 16:20:27 EST 
We have removed FieldCategory from the sort criterea for build >20060118
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-01-23 08:54:44 EST 
*** Bug 124665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-02-13 16:37:27 EST 
Verified in 20050213-1200