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Bug 328700

Summary:	EModelService's search methods will choke on non-null search id with a placeholder that has a 'null' target 'ref'
Product:	[Eclipse Project] e4	Reporter:	Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bsd, pwebster
Version:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Remy Suen

2010-10-26 09:06:52 EDT

An NPE will occur in match(MUIElement, String, Class, List<String>).

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-02-25 07:58:12 EST

I got into an unending string of NPE error dialogs from this.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.match(ModelServiceImpl.java:63)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:86)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:151)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:151)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElements(ModelServiceImpl.java:165)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.find(ModelServiceImpl.java:201)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.findSharedArea(WorkbenchPage.java:2370)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.getActiveEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:1675)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider.updateActivePart(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:502)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider.updateActivePart(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:445)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider.getCurrentState(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:134)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider$6.handleEvent(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:692)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)

Comment 2 Brian de Alwis

2015-08-27 14:51:21 EDT

Closing as this is old and the implementation has changed substantially since.