Bug 29416 Cannot create Type if typecomment Template doesn't exist
Actual: Click on File/New/Interface (or Class). Type a name, and click Finish. Error dialog appears telling me to look in the log (stack trace below). Interface/Class file is created, but is completely empty. If I go to Preferences and create the "typecomment" template, this problem goes away Expected: Class/Interface should be created and the file populated properly, despite the absence of the typecomment template. Looks easy to fix, I just don't have the code handy, nor thetime to do it (sorry). The relevant portion of the stack trace: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.wizards.NewTypeWizardPage.isValidComment(NewTypeWizardPage.java:1543) at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.wizards.NewTypeWizardPage.getTypeComment(NewTypeWizardPage.java:1566) at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.wizards.NewTypeWizardPage.constructTypeStub(NewTypeWizardPage.java:1462) at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.wizards.NewTypeWizardPage.createType(NewTypeWizardPage.java:1345) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.NewInterfaceCreationWizard.finishPage(NewInterfaceCreationWizard.java:45) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.NewElementWizard$2.run(NewElementWizard.java:79) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.BatchOperation.executeOperation(BatchOperation.java:34) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelOperation.execute(JavaModelOperation.java:326) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelOperation.run(JavaModelOperation.java:626) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:1564) at org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore.run(JavaCore.java:2571) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.actions.WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.run(WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.java:32) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.runInCurrentThread(ModalContext.java:296)
org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/ui/wizards/NewTypeWizardPage.java
}
	
	/**
	 * Hook method that gets called from <code>createType</code> to retrieve 
	 * a type comment. This default implementation returns the content of the 
	 * 'typecomment' template.
	 * 
	 * @return the type comment or <code>null</code> if a type comment 
	 * is not desired
	 */		
	protected String getTypeComment(ICompilationUnit parentCU) {
		if (PreferenceConstants.getPreferenceStore().getBoolean(PreferenceConstants.CODEGEN__JAVADOC_STUBS)) {
			String template= getTemplate("typecomment", parentCU, 0); 
			if (isValidComment(template)) {
				return template;
			}
		}
		return null;
	}
	/**
	 * @deprecated Use getTemplate(String,ICompilationUnit,int)
	 */
	protected String getTemplate(String name, ICompilationUnit parentCU) {
		return getTemplate(name, parentCU, 0);
	
	}
	
	/**
	 * Returns the string resulting from evaluation the given template in
	 * the context of the given compilation unit.