Project: Eclipse_Platform_UI
Bug 208791 [Markers] NPE in ExtendedMarkersView
Reported: 2007-11-05 12:58:10 | Status: verified fixed

org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Failed to execute runnable (java.lang.NullPointerException) at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3706) at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3624) [... snip ...] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.ui.internal.provisional.views.markers.ExtendedMarkersView$10.runInUIThread(ExtendedMarkersView.java:896) at org.eclipse.ui.progress.UIJob$1.run(UIJob.java:94) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:130) ... 52 more This brought down testResourceMappings(), but you just need to check getCategories() can return null. PW

Files changed in fix:
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/provisional/views/markers/ExtendedMarkersView.java