Bug 208791 [Markers] NPE in ExtendedMarkersView
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
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/provisional/views/markers/ExtendedMarkersView.java
import org.eclipse.help.IContext;
import org.eclipse.help.IContextProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.action.ContributionManager;
import org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManager;
import org.eclipse.jface.util.IPropertyChangeListener;
import org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy;
import org.eclipse.jface.util.PropertyChangeEvent;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ColumnPixelData;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IOpenListener;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ITreeContentProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.OpenEvent;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredSelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TableLayout;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewerColumn;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.window.SameShellProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.window.Window;
import org.eclipse.osgi.util.NLS;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.HelpEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.HelpListener;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionAdapter;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionListener;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.TreeAdapter;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.TreeEvent;