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Bug 434068 - [Perspectives] NPE while reordering perspectives
Summary: [Perspectives] NPE while reordering perspectives
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.4 RC1   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
QA Contact: Eric Moffatt CLA
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Reported: 2014-05-05 01:25 EDT by Martin Mathew CLA
Modified: 2014-05-16 10:49 EDT (History)
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Description Martin Mathew CLA 2014-05-05 01:25:52 EDT 
I was using Eclipse Version: Luna (4.4) Build id: I20140501-0200 to test 'Perspective re-ordering', the below exception was thrown when i accidentally selected 'Open Perspective' item and tried to re-order it.

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.addons.perspectiveswitcher.PerspectiveSwitcher$12.mouseUp(PerspectiveSwitcher.java:490)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:220)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4353)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1061)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4172)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3761)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1152)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1033)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:148)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:635)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:578)
	at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:150)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:135)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:379)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:233)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:648)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:603)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1465)
Comment 1 Eric Moffatt CLA 2014-05-05 15:44:34 EDT 
Manju, Good pickup, thanks !

I've reproduced this on M7...
Comment 2 Eric Moffatt CLA 2014-05-08 11:05:49 EDT 
Here's the Gerrit:

  https://git.eclipse.org/r/26223
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2014-05-09 05:12:43 EDT 
(In reply to Eric Moffatt from comment #2)
> Here's the Gerrit:
> 
>   https://git.eclipse.org/r/26223

Submitted with http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=a77c12ef263a60088542ed895338f8f71cc09266
Comment 4 Eric Moffatt CLA 2014-05-16 10:49:11 EDT 
Verified in 4.4.0.I20140515-1230.