Bug 334680

Description Bill Brown 2011-01-18 12:54:03 EST

Greetings: 

I get the following Nullpointer exception when I try to compare two php files in the compare editor.  This is from the logs and happens for all php files. 

!ENTRY org.eclipse.jface 4 2 2011-01-18 11:44:22.722
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.format.FormatPreferencesSupport.verifyValidity(FormatPreferencesSupport.java:100)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.format.FormatPreferencesSupport.getIndentationChar(FormatPreferencesSupport.java:89)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.ui.editor.configuration.PHPStructuredTextViewerConfiguration.getIndentPrefixes(PHPStructuredTextViewerConfiguration.java:448)
	at org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.internal.StructuredTextViewer.configure(StructuredTextViewer.java:311)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.ui.compare.MergeSourceViewer.configure(MergeSourceViewer.java:542)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.ui.compare.TextMergeViewer$ContributorInfo.internalSetDocument(TextMergeViewer.java:546)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.ui.compare.TextMergeViewer$ContributorInfo.setDocument(TextMergeViewer.java:434)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.ui.compare.TextMergeViewer.updateContent(TextMergeViewer.java:2569)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.ui.compare.ContentMergeViewer.internalRefresh(ContentMergeViewer.java:814)
	at org.eclipse.php.internal.ui.compare.ContentMergeViewer.inputChanged(ContentMergeViewer.java:704)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ContentViewer.setInput(ContentViewer.java:274)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareViewerSwitchingPane.setInput(CompareViewerSwitchingPane.java:276)
	at org.eclipse.compare.internal.CompareContentViewerSwitchingPane.setInput(CompareContentViewerSwitchingPane.java:158)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput.internalSetContentPaneInput(CompareEditorInput.java:844)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput.access$8(CompareEditorInput.java:842)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput$11.run(CompareEditorInput.java:785)
	at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput.feed1(CompareEditorInput.java:772)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput.access$3(CompareEditorInput.java:771)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput$5.open(CompareEditorInput.java:657)
	at org.eclipse.compare.CompareViewerPane.open(CompareViewerPane.java:325)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$2.run(StructuredViewer.java:845)
	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.fireOpen(StructuredViewer.java:843)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.handleOpen(StructuredViewer.java:1131)
	at org.eclipse.compare.internal.ResourceCompareInput$2.access$0(ResourceCompareInput.java:1)
	at org.eclipse.compare.internal.ResourceCompareInput$3.run(ResourceCompareInput.java:140)
	at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:498)
	at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:584)
	at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:501)
	at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:411)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4066)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3657)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2640)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2604)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2438)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$7.run(Workbench.java:671)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:664)
	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)


Let me know if you need more information. 

Thanks for looking at this. 

Bill.


-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 1.3.1.20100913-1228 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.pde 3.6.1.r361_v20100727-7b7mFL-FET3dhESDgE5_bkJ