Description Marc Dutoo 2010-05-12 09:12:01 EDT

So can't work with JWT at all right now ;_;

Happened when running all JWT plugins from within Eclipse using CVS HEAD.


full stack :

12 mai 2010 14:13:45 org.eclipse.jwt.we.misc.views.Views collectViews
ATTENTION: error loading external views
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.misc.views.Views.collectViews(Views.java:290)
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.misc.views.Views.<init>(Views.java:125)
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.misc.views.Views.getInstance(Views.java:183)
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.Plugin.getFactoryRegistry(Plugin.java:169)
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.editors.actions.internalActions.DirectEditAction.<init>(DirectEditAction.java:73)
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.editors.WEEditor.createActions(WEEditor.java:1465)
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.editors.WEEditor.initializeActionRegistry(WEEditor.java:1538)
	at org.eclipse.jwt.we.editors.WEEditor.init(WEEditor.java:1524)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.createSite(EditorManager.java:798)


It is caused by the internalName of the "vD" view org.eclipse.jwt/we/jwt-we-plugins/jwt-we-view-example/src/org/eclipse/jwt/we/plugins/viewexample/ExampleView2/NoData.view
 being null in Views.java line 355 :
if(vD.getInternalName().equals(viewDesc.getInternalName()))

=> Is it OK if a views's internalName is null ??
If it's not, then why not change the view metamodel to give it a default value and forbid to set it to null (unset) ?
If it is, then is internalName the right attribute to test the equality of two views on ? If yes, then everywhere in Views.java, it should be first checked that it is not null, and possibly log it as WARN.