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Bug 323315

Summary: Exception when opening extension point for editing
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Torkild Resheim <torkildr>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: darin.eclipse
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X   
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Description Torkild Resheim CLA 2010-08-21 18:30:19 EDT
Got the following exception when attempting to open one of my extension points for editing.

-- Error Details --
Date: Sun Aug 22 00:28:12 CEST 2010
Message: Unable to create editor ID org.eclipse.pde.ui.schemaEditor: An unexpected exception was thrown.
Severity: Error
Product: Eclipse SDK 3.6.0.v201006080911 (org.eclipse.sdk.ide)
Plugin: org.eclipse.ui
Session Data:
eclipse.buildId=I20100608-0911
java.version=1.6.0_20
java.vendor=Apple Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86_64, WS=cocoa, NL=nb_NO
Framework arguments:  -keyring /Users/torkild/.eclipse_keyring -showlocation
Command-line arguments:  -os macosx -ws cocoa -arch x86_64 -keyring /Users/torkild/.eclipse_keyring -showlocation


Exception Stack Trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.schema.SchemaDescriptor.<init>(SchemaDescriptor.java:46)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.schema.SchemaInputContext.createExternalModel(SchemaInputContext.java:76)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.schema.SchemaInputContext.createModel(SchemaInputContext.java:57)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.context.InputContext.create(InputContext.java:134)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.schema.SchemaInputContext.<init>(SchemaInputContext.java:42)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.schema.SchemaEditor.createSystemFileContexts(SchemaEditor.java:103)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.PDEFormEditor.createInputContexts(PDEFormEditor.java:206)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.PDEFormEditor.createPages(PDEFormEditor.java:244)
	at org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart.createPartControl(MultiPageEditorPart.java:348)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPartHelper(EditorReference.java:670)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPart(EditorReference.java:465)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.java:595)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.getEditor(EditorReference.java:289)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditorBatched(WorkbenchPage.java:2863)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2768)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.access$11(WorkbenchPage.java:2760)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$10.run(WorkbenchPage.java:2711)
	at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2707)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2691)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2674)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.schema.SchemaEditor.openEditor(SchemaEditor.java:211)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.schema.SchemaEditor.openSchema(SchemaEditor.java:201)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.actions.OpenSchemaAction.openSchemaFile(OpenSchemaAction.java:219)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.actions.OpenSchemaAction.run(OpenSchemaAction.java:194)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.plugin.ExtensionPointsSection.handleDoubleClick(ExtensionPointsSection.java:223)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.TableSection$PartAdapter.handleDoubleClick(TableSection.java:46)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.parts.TablePart$2.doubleClick(TablePart.java:46)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$1.run(StructuredViewer.java:824)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:49)
	at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:175)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.fireDoubleClick(StructuredViewer.java:822)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.handleDoubleSelect(StructuredViewer.java:1113)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$4.widgetDefaultSelected(StructuredViewer.java:1225)
	at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.fireDefaultSelectionEvent(OpenStrategy.java:238)
	at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$0(OpenStrategy.java:235)
	at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$1.handleEvent(OpenStrategy.java:296)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:3776)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1367)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1390)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1375)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:1187)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3622)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3277)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2629)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2593)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2427)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$7.run(Workbench.java:670)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:663)
	at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:115)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:369)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:619)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:574)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1407)
Comment 1 Torkild Resheim CLA 2010-08-21 18:31:44 EDT
Note that when I opened the exsd file directly (not from the plug-in editor) I do not get this problem.
Comment 2 Darin Wright CLA 2010-08-30 09:09:21 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 277559 ***