java.lang.NullPointerException LazyStackRenderer.showElementRecursive when changing perspectives

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I'll apologize in advance if this is not the appropriate location for this question (if so, please let me know where I should post this issue).

We have the ability to choose perspectives in our application similar to in eclipse (when in eclipse you can add the git, java, debug, etc. perspective).

We're trying to move from Eclipse Kepler / Java 7 to Eclipse Oxygen / Java 8 and we see the exception below when doing the following:

- open our application, a default perspective is selected [perspective #1], select non default perspective [perspective #2]

- close the application

- re-open the application (default perspective is now selected [perspective #1])

- select the non-default perspective [perspective #2] -> exception thrown as outlined below and the application remains on perspective #1

*note: The exception will not be thrown if perspective #1 is selected prior to closing the application.

We can run the application with the -clearPersistedState argument and then the workbench.xmi is deleted on start-up and we won't see the exception.

Has anyone else run into this problem or know how to solve it (exception from the console below)?  Could we be creating/using perspectives in an inappropriate way?

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2017-11-06 11:08:29.138 !MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception !STACK 0java.lang.NullPointerException at

org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.showElementRecursive(LazyStackRenderer.java:228) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.showElementRecursive(LazyStackRenderer.java:271) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.showElementRecursive(LazyStackRenderer.java:276) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.showElementRecursive(LazyStackRenderer.java:276) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.showElementRecursive(LazyStackRenderer.java:276) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.showTab(LazyStackRenderer.java:154) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.PerspectiveStackRenderer.showTab(PerspectiveStackRenderer.java:85) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.lambda$0(LazyStackRenderer.java:68) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.services.internal.events.UIEventHandler$1.run(UIEventHandler.java:40) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.syncExec(Synchronizer.java:233) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.UISynchronizer.syncExec(UISynchronizer.java:144) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.syncExec(Display.java:4889) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.E4Application$1.syncExec(E4Application.java:212) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.services.internal.events.UIEventHandler.handleEvent(UIEventHandler.java:36) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventHandlerWrapper.handleEvent(EventHandlerWrapper.java:201) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventHandlerTracker.dispatchEvent(EventHandlerTracker.java:197) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventHandlerTracker.dispatchEvent(EventHandlerTracker.java:1) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:230) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.ListenerQueue.dispatchEventSynchronous(ListenerQueue.java:148) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventAdminImpl.dispatchEvent(EventAdminImpl.java:135) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventAdminImpl.sendEvent(EventAdminImpl.java:78) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventComponent.sendEvent(EventComponent.java:39) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.services.internal.events.EventBroker.send(EventBroker.java:52) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.UIEventPublisher.notifyChanged(UIEventPublisher.java:60) at org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.impl.BasicNotifierImpl.eNotify(BasicNotifierImpl.java:374) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.model.application.ui.advanced.impl.PerspectiveStackImpl.setSelectedElement(PerspectiveStackImpl.java:135) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.model.application.ui.advanced.impl.PerspectiveStackImpl.setSelectedElement(PerspectiveStackImpl.java:1) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.addons.perspectiveswitcher.PerspectiveSwitcher$4.widgetSelected(PerspectiveSwitcher.java:543) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:249) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:86) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4428) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1079) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4238) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3817) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$5.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1150) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1039) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:153) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:680) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:594) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:148) at com.ipunwired.core.ui.application.Application.start(Application.java:23) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:388) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:243) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:653) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:590) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1499) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1472)

karianna

Hi there,

You need to ask this Q over at the Eclipse Foundation (eclipse.org).