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Bug 358762

Summary:

NPE in JDT compiler

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Vincent Privat <vincent.privat>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

Srikanth Sankaran <srikanth_sankaran>

Status:

VERIFIED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

amj87.iitr, Olivier_Thomann

Version:

3.7.1

Target Milestone:

3.8 M3

Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Errors log file	none
Proposed fix	none

Description Vincent Privat

2011-09-23 14:45:54 EDT

Build Identifier: M20110909-1335

I've just got an NPE with the attached stack trace, while editing a simple Java class in 1.6 mode.

I have updated to 3.7.1 few hours ago. My config is the following:
- Eclipse IDE: 3.7.1 running with Java 7 x64 on Windows 7 SP1 x64
- Java Project: configured with jdk6u27 x64

The NPE is here:
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.ConstructorDeclaration.isRecursive(ConstructorDeclaration.java:429)


Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Vincent Privat

2011-09-23 14:46:43 EDT

Created attachment 203929 [details]
Errors log file

Comment 2 Olivier Thomann

2011-09-23 14:58:44 EDT

I can see how this is possible. Now, I could not find a test case to reproduce
this issue.

The targetConstructor can be set to null on line 417. And we never check for
null.
I propose to insert:
if (targetConstructor == null) return false;

This must be a case where there is already an error in the code. I'll attach a
patch shortly.

Comment 3 Olivier Thomann

2011-09-23 14:59:23 EDT

Created attachment 203931 [details]
Proposed fix

A regression test must be found for this problem.

Comment 4 Olivier Thomann

2011-09-23 15:00:23 EDT

Vincent, if you have a chance to describe in what circumstances this is failing, it would be helpful to write a regression test.

Comment 5 Ayushman Jain

2011-09-23 15:05:54 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> Build Identifier: M20110909-1335
> 
> I've just got an NPE with the attached stack trace, while editing a simple Java

Vincent, if its a simple Java class, can you please attach it (or a class that mimics it?) Thanks!

Comment 6 Vincent Privat

2011-09-23 15:10:22 EDT

In the log file, you can see the source of the class generating this issue
(OsmImporter).

The compiler errors are the following:
- this statement declares a static final object with an unhlandled exception
from its constructor:
public static final MimeType OSM_XML_MIME_TYPE = new
MimeType("application/x-osm+xml");

- this statement is an incomplete constructor (the one I was writing when the
exception happened):
    public OsmImporter(ExtensionFileFilter filter) {
        this(filter, );
    }

And, that's all. Once this error occurs, it looks like there's a whole bunch of
recursal exceptions on each operator action inside this file (mouse over a
underlined error, click on the error marker, etc.)

Comment 7 Srikanth Sankaran

2011-10-12 04:36:03 EDT

I could not still reproduce the problem with the scenario described in
comment 6, however the patch from comment# 3 looks good and has been
released into master for 3.8 M3.

Commit id: fcd23c7f31f72a5138ea1cad062c9d8a4a84f1dc.

Comment 8 Ayushman Jain

2011-10-24 09:30:17 EDT

Verified for 3.8M3 via code inspection.