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Bug 328700 - EModelService's search methods will choke on non-null search id with a placeholder that has a 'null' target 'ref'
Summary: EModelService's search methods will choke on non-null search id with a placeh...
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: e4
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2010-10-26 09:06 EDT by Remy Suen CLA
Modified: 2015-08-27 14:51 EDT (History)
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Description Remy Suen CLA 2010-10-26 09:06:52 EDT 
An NPE will occur in match(MUIElement, String, Class, List<String>).
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2011-02-25 07:58:12 EST 
I got into an unending string of NPE error dialogs from this.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.match(ModelServiceImpl.java:63)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:86)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:151)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:151)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElementsRecursive(ModelServiceImpl.java:118)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.findElements(ModelServiceImpl.java:165)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.find(ModelServiceImpl.java:201)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.findSharedArea(WorkbenchPage.java:2370)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.getActiveEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:1675)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider.updateActivePart(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:502)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider.updateActivePart(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:445)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider.getCurrentState(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:134)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchSourceProvider$6.handleEvent(WorkbenchSourceProvider.java:692)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
Comment 2 Brian de Alwis CLA 2015-08-27 14:51:21 EDT 
Closing as this is old and the implementation has changed substantially since.