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When starting the "Ask a Question" action I got this error. The stacktrace can be copied in the stacktrace console. !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2011-06-05 19:46:13.192 !MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception !STACK 0 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.ecf.salvo.ui.internal.wizards.SelectNewsgroupWizardPage.getAllNewsgroups(SelectNewsgroupWizardPage.java:80) at org.eclipse.ecf.salvo.ui.internal.wizards.SelectNewsgroupWizardPage.<init>(SelectNewsgroupWizardPage.java:26) at org.eclipse.ecf.salvo.ui.wizards.AskAQuestionWizard.addPages(AskAQuestionWizard.java:31) at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.createContents(WizardDialog.java:603) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:431) at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1089) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:790) at org.eclipse.ecf.salvo.ui.internal.handlers.AskAquestionHandler.execute(AskAquestionHandler.java:17) 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.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:1258) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3540) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3161) 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(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) 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)
The reason is that there were no stores started. Please add some defensive code to the application.
Defensive code added
Assigning to Isuru
fixed. Now an error message is shown to user if user access this functionality without starting a store.
