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Bug 3093

Summary: Explorer cannot stand shadowed directories.
Product: platform Reporter: Marian Petras <mpetras>
Component: -- Other --Assignee: Marian Petras <mpetras>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description Marian Petras 1999-08-04 01:56:42 UTC 
1. Mount directory CPTest.
2. Select and copy directory "Startup".
3. Select directory "Development" of NetBeans.
4. Paste directory "Startup" - create link.
5. Restart NetBeans.
6. After restart, expand directory "CPTest" (root).

The exception below is displayed and only one node - "QA Website" - is displayed in the directory "CPTest".


7. Expand directory "Development" of NetBeans.

The directory "Startup" displayed is not the shadow directory of the original directory Startup, but it is "Startup" section from global settings of IDE.

Cause:
Shadow of the directory has bad representation on the disk - only name but not full path is written on the disk.

java.lang.NullPointerException:
	at org.openide.filesystems.AbstractFileSystem.findResource(AbstractFileSystem.java:124)
	at org.openide.filesystems.Repository.findResource(Repository.java:355)
	at org.openide.loaders.DataShadow.deserialize(DataShadow.java:108)
	at org.openide.loaders.DataLoaderPool$ShadowLoader.handleFindDataObject(DataLoaderPool.java:567)
	at org.openide.loaders.DataLoader.findDataObject(DataLoader.java:133)
	at org.openide.loaders.DataLoaderPool.findDataObject(DataLoaderPool.java:358)
	at org.openide.loaders.FolderList.createBoth(FolderList.java:362)
	at org.openide.loaders.FolderList.getObjects(FolderList.java:241)
	at org.openide.loaders.FolderList.getChildrenList(FolderList.java:140)
	at org.openide.loaders.DataFolder.getChildrenList(DataFolder.java:220)
	at org.openide.loaders.FolderChildren$1.run(FolderChildren.java:183)
	at org.openide.util.Task.run(Task.java:127)
	at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$ProcessorThread.run(RequestProcessor.java:402)
Comment 1 Marek Grummich 2000-07-25 09:24:59 UTC 
Priority is changed to P4 (normal).
Comment 2 Marian Mirilovic 2002-04-19 15:44:44 UTC 
verified.
Comment 3 Quality Engineering 2003-07-02 15:16:18 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.