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Bug 364509

Summary: NPE retrieving context when attachment creation date is null
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component: MylynAssignee: Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 3.6.5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Sam Davis CLA 2011-11-22 15:02:50 EST
If the connector returns null for attachment creation date, right clicking a task and selecting a retrieve context throws an NPE.

Error
Mon Nov 21 16:41:52 PST 2011
Unhandled event loop exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.ibm.icu.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:1979)
	at com.ibm.icu.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:482)
	at com.ibm.icu.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:494)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.context.ui.wizards.ContextRetrieveWizardPage.createControl(ContextRetrieveWizardPage.java:122)
	at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.Wizard.createPageControls(Wizard.java:170)
	at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.createPageControls(WizardDialog.java:734)
	at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.createContents(WizardDialog.java:606)
	at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:431)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1089)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.context.ui.commands.RetrieveContextHandler.run(RetrieveContextHandler.java:35)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.context.ui.commands.RetrieveContextHandler.execute(RetrieveContextHandler.java:29)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.ui.commands.AbstractTaskHandler.process(AbstractTaskHandler.java:80)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.ui.commands.AbstractTaskHandler.process(AbstractTaskHandler.java:68)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.ui.commands.AbstractTaskHandler.execute(AbstractTaskHandler.java:46)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.HandlerProxy.execute(HandlerProxy.java:293)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.Command.executeWithChecks(Command.java:476)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.ParameterizedCommand.executeWithChecks(ParameterizedCommand.java:508)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.HandlerService.executeCommand(HandlerService.java:169)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.SlaveHandlerService.executeCommand(SlaveHandlerService.java:241)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.SlaveHandlerService.executeCommand(SlaveHandlerService.java:241)
	at org.eclipse.ui.menus.CommandContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(CommandContributionItem.java:820)
	at org.eclipse.ui.menus.CommandContributionItem.access$19(CommandContributionItem.java:806)
	at org.eclipse.ui.menus.CommandContributionItem$5.handleEvent(CommandContributionItem.java:796)
	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(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:619)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:574)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1407)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1383)
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-11-22 15:27:47 EST
Thanks, that needs to get fixed.
Comment 2 Steffen Pingel CLA 2012-01-16 13:42:20 EST
Fixed in 207ef5609ada028553de12b96a5dcd623eb5271e. I have applied the fix to master as well.
Comment 3 Steffen Pingel CLA 2012-01-16 13:42:24 EST
Created attachment 209579 [details]
mylyn/context/zip