Description zhiqing 2010-08-13 09:23:10 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100615235519

Error Code:
while (iter.hasNext()) {
				IContentAssistProcessor legacyProcessor = (IContentAssistProcessor) iter.next();
				ICompletionProposal[] legacyComputed = legacyProcessor.computeCompletionProposals(viewer, offset);
				proposals.addAll(Arrays.asList(legacyComputed));
			}
around Line 471.
Obviously, you can see you never check whether legacyComputed is null or not.

   I call it a bug because the nullpointException gives my project a real trouble. I have a class which is named AllTagContentAssistProcessor.java in my plugin-project and it extends from the class named AbstractContentAssistProcessor.java. 
   In AllTagContentAssistProcessor.java, I override the method : protected ContentAssistRequest computeCompletionProposals(int documentPosition, String matchString,ITextRegion completionRegion, IDOMNode treeNode,IDOMNode xmlnode), and whenever there is no ICompletionProposal need to show, I makes the method return null. It works well in former versions, but now the nullpointException makes my project a real trouble.

  To solve the problem in my project, I have to use a very stupid way. I write a method to add a ICompletionProposal contains a comment proposal to the returned ContentAssistRequest like this to avoid the nullpointException:
public ContentAssistRequest fixBugs(ContentAssistRequest contentAssistRequest, int documentPosition,
			String matchString, ITextRegion completionRegion,
			IDOMNode treeNode, IDOMNode xmlnode) {
    	if( null == contentAssistRequest || null == contentAssistRequest.getCompletionProposals() || contentAssistRequest.getCompletionProposals().length == 0 ){
    		//contentAssistRequest = new ContentAssistRequest( xmlnode,  null,  getStructuredDocumentRegion(documentPosition) , completionRegion, documentPosition, 0, matchString);
    		contentAssistRequest = newContentAssistRequest(treeNode, xmlnode,getStructuredDocumentRegion(documentPosition), completionRegion, documentPosition, 0,matchString);
    		String replaceString = "<!--  -->";
    		String displayString = "comment - xml comment";
    		String additionalProposalInfo = "comment - xml comment <!--  -->";
    		ICompletionProposal proposal = new AllTagCompletionProposal(replaceString,documentPosition, 0, replaceString.indexOf(">") + 1,XMLEditorPluginImageHelper.getInstance().getImage(XMLEditorPluginImages.IMG_OBJ_TAG_MACRO),displayString, null, additionalProposalInfo, XMLRelevanceConstants.R_TAG_NAME, null);
    		//add a comment to avoid the WTP nullpointException bug
    		contentAssistRequest.addProposal(proposal);
    	}
    	return contentAssistRequest;
    }

Reproducible: Always