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
} else {
			IRegion visibleRegion= sourceViewer.getVisibleRegion();
			
			visible= (targetOffset >= visibleRegion.getOffset() && targetOffset <= visibleRegion.getOffset() + visibleRegion.getLength());
		}
		
		if (!visible) {
			setStatusLineErrorMessage(JavaEditorMessages.getString("GotoMatchingBracket.error.bracketOutsideSelectedElement"));			
			sourceViewer.getTextWidget().getDisplay().beep();
			return;
		}
		
		if (selection.getLength() < 0)
			targetOffset -= selection.getLength();
			
		sourceViewer.setSelectedRange(targetOffset, selection.getLength());
		sourceViewer.revealRange(targetOffset, selection.getLength());
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the given message as error message to this editor's status line.
	 * 
	 * @param msg message to be set
	 */
	protected void setStatusLineErrorMessage(String msg) {
		IEditorStatusLine statusLine= (IEditorStatusLine) getAdapter(IEditorStatusLine.class);
		if (statusLine != null)
			statusLine.setMessage(true, msg, null);	
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the given message as message to this editor's status line.