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Bug 319877

Summary: Infinite NPE can fill log file up quickly
Product: [Eclipse Project] e4 Reporter: Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Component: UIAssignee: Paul Webster <pwebster>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0 RC2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Remy Suen CLA 2010-07-14 12:13:08 EDT 
Looks like I have ten megabytes worth of logs complaining about this NPE. I would never have noticed if I didn't open up the 'Error Log' view.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.ToolItemRenderer$7$1.run(ToolItemRenderer.java:378)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.ToolItemRenderer$7.run(ToolItemRenderer.java:366)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runTimer(Display.java:4167)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.messageProc(Display.java:3256)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessageW(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessage(OS.java:2459)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3655)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$4.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:693)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:618)
Comment 1 Paul Webster CLA 2010-07-14 14:40:35 EDT 
If the service is null, simply return.

PW
Comment 2 Paul Webster CLA 2010-07-16 08:10:01 EDT 
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