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Bug 307487

Summary:	InvocationTargetException when generating a serialVersionUID
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	John Xmas <johnxmas>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	markus.kell.r, Olivier_Thomann
Version:	3.3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description John Xmas

2010-03-30 04:08:06 EDT

Build Identifier: M20080221-1800

When selecting add generated serial version Id, I get the following exception

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.run(ModalContext.java:350)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ProgressMonitorDialog.run(ProgressMonitorDialog.java:495)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.progress.ProgressMonitorJobsDialog.run(ProgressMonitorJobsDialog.java:268)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.progress.ProgressManager$3.run(ProgressManager.java:909)
	at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:67)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.progress.ProgressManager.busyCursorWhile(ProgressManager.java:944)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.progress.ProgressManager.busyCursorWhile(ProgressManager.java:919)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.SerialVersionHashOperation.addInitializer(SerialVersionHashOperation.java:181)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.corext.fix.AbstractSerialVersionOperation.rewriteAST(AbstractSerialVersionOperation.java:105)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.corext.fix.LinkedFix.createChange(LinkedFix.java:74)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.FixCorrectionProposal.createTextChange(FixCorrectionProposal.java:143)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.CUCorrectionProposal.createChange(CUCorrectionProposal.java:438)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.ChangeCorrectionProposal.getChange(ChangeCorrectionProposal.java:226)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.ChangeCorrectionProposal.performChange(ChangeCorrectionProposal.java:102)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.CUCorrectionProposal.performChange(CUCorrectionProposal.java:304)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.CUCorrectionProposal.apply(CUCorrectionProposal.java:282)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.FixCorrectionProposal.apply(FixCorrectionProposal.java:179)
	at org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist.CompletionProposalPopup.insertProposal(CompletionProposalPopup.java:806)
	at org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist.CompletionProposalPopup.insertSelectedProposalWithMask(CompletionProposalPopup.java:757)
	at org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist.CompletionProposalPopup.access$27(CompletionProposalPopup.java:753)
	at org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist.CompletionProposalPopup$5.widgetDefaultSelected(CompletionProposalPopup.java:574)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:112)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:938)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3682)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3293)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2389)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2353)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2219)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$4.run(Workbench.java:466)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:289)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:461)
	at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:106)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:169)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:106)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:76)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:363)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:176)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:508)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:447)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1173)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.Activator.getURLConverter(Activator.java:313)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.FileLocator.toFileURL(FileLocator.java:163)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.SerialVersionHashOperation.calculateSerialVersionIds(SerialVersionHashOperation.java:102)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.SerialVersionHashOperation.computeId(SerialVersionHashOperation.java:231)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.SerialVersionHashOperation.access$0(SerialVersionHashOperation.java:204)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.SerialVersionHashOperation$3.run(SerialVersionHashOperation.java:185)
	at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:113)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Create a Class implementing Serializable 
Don't add any serialVersionUID
Click Quick fix 
selected add generated serial version Id

Comment 1 Olivier Thomann

2010-03-30 08:42:48 EDT

Moving to JDT/UI

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2010-03-30 08:56:52 EDT

> Build Identifier: M20080221-1800
That's not 3.6, fixing version.

Please use 3.4 or later.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 233354 ***