Bug 62612 NPE in EclipsePreferences.internalGet(...)
I200405171219 + ZRH smoke plugin-export 20040518_1115 After start and shutdown of the Buildmeister runtime I found the following exception. It looks like getTextPreferenceKey() in AbstractAnnotationHover#getHoverInfo() at line 83 returned null. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.internalGet(EclipsePreferences.java:479) at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.get(EclipsePreferences.java:349) at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.PreferenceForwarder.contains(PreferenceForwarder.java:181) at org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin$CompatibilityPreferenceStore.contains(AbstractUIPlugin.java:277) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getVisibleStore(ChainedPreferenceStore.java:525) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getBoolean(ChainedPreferenceStore.java:166) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.AbstractAnnotationHover.getHoverInfo(AbstractAnnotationHover.java:83) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.BestMatchHover.getHoverInfo(BestMatchHover.java:102) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.getHoverInfo(JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.java:69) at org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewerHoverManager$4.run(TextViewerHoverManager.java:161)
org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/javaeditor/JavaEditor.java
return new Region(start + 1, end - start - 1);
				
			} catch (BadLocationException x) {
				return null;
			}
		}
		IRegion getCurrentTextRegion(ISourceViewer viewer) {
			int offset= getCurrentTextOffset(viewer);				
			if (offset == -1)
				return null;
			IJavaElement input= SelectionConverter.getInput(JavaEditor.this);
			if (input == null)
				return null;
			try {
				
				IJavaElement[] elements= null;
				synchronized (input) {
					elements= ((ICodeAssist) input).codeSelect(offset, 0);
				}
				
				if (elements == null || elements.length == 0)
					return null;
					
				return selectWord(viewer.getDocument(), offset);
					
			} catch (JavaModelException e) {
				return null;	
			}
		}
		private int getCurrentTextOffset(ISourceViewer viewer) {