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
builder.setGenerator(generator);
		createColumns(viewer.getTree().getColumns());
		setPartName(generator.getName());
		viewer.refresh();
	}
	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.part.WorkbenchPart#setFocus()
	 */
	public void setFocus() {
		
	}
	/**
	 * Add group to the enabled filters.
	 * 
	 * @param group
	 */
	void toggleFilter(MarkerFieldFilterGroup group) {
		builder.toggleFilter(group);
	}
	/**
	 * Update the direction indicator as column is now the primary column.
	 * 
	 * @param column
	 * @field {@link MarkerField}
	 */
	void updateDirectionIndicator(TreeColumn column, MarkerField field) {
		viewer.getTree().setSortColumn(column);
		if (builder.getGenerator().getSortDirection(field) == MarkerComparator.ASCENDING)