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Bug 347089

Summary:	Plug-in Spy no longer works
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	contact, prakash, remy.suen, tom.schindl
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Carolyn MacLeod

2011-05-24 17:07:48 EDT

Eclipse 4.1 Build: I20110523-2200

Alt+Shift+F1 should invoke the Eclipse Plug-in Selection Spy (try it in 3.7).

Instead, I get the following stack trace:
org.eclipse.e4.core.di.InjectionException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPane()Lorg/eclipse/ui/internal/PartPane;
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.MethodRequestor.execute(MethodRequestor.java:63)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.invokeUsingClass(InjectorImpl.java:226)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.invoke(InjectorImpl.java:207)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.contexts.ContextInjectionFactory.invoke(ContextInjectionFactory.java:123)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.commands.internal.HandlerServiceImpl.executeHandler(HandlerServiceImpl.java:122)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings.keys.KeyBindingDispatcher.executeCommand(KeyBindingDispatcher.java:278)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings.keys.KeyBindingDispatcher.press(KeyBindingDispatcher.java:504)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings.keys.KeyBindingDispatcher.processKeyEvent(KeyBindingDispatcher.java:555)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings.keys.KeyBindingDispatcher.filterKeySequenceBindings(KeyBindingDispatcher.java:366)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings.keys.KeyBindingDispatcher.access$0(KeyBindingDispatcher.java:313)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings.keys.KeyBindingDispatcher$KeyDownFilter.handleEvent(KeyBindingDispatcher.java:81)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.filterEvent(Display.java:1262)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1052)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1077)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1062)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendKeyEvent(Widget.java:1104)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendKeyEvent(Widget.java:1100)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.wmSysKeyDown(Widget.java:2558)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.WM_SYSKEYDOWN(Control.java:5285)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.windowProc(Control.java:4590)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Canvas.windowProc(Canvas.java:341)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:4970)
	at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessageW(Native Method)
	at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessage(OS.java:2530)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3750)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:944)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:860)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:87)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$3.run(Workbench.java:542)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:522)
	at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:123)
	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:344)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
	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:622)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)

Comment 1 Thomas Schindl

2011-05-24 18:01:15 EDT

Not really a suprise if something resides so much on internals as Plugin Spy. isn't it coming from PDE?

A replacement you can use in Eclipse 4.1:
* Inspecting the Contexts-View
* "Live Application Model"-View (you need to install the model tooling from the 
  e4 update site)

Both of them are extremly powerful and show you a live state of the running application, the latter allows you execute JavaScript expression, ...

Comment 2 Prakash Rangaraj

2011-05-24 22:47:23 EDT

Plugin Spy might be heavily depending on 3.x APIs and internals. Not sure it will work the same way in 4.x. 

Moving to PDE for comments

Comment 3 Remy Suen

2011-05-25 06:28:25 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 346978 ***