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Build: NetBeans IDE 7.4 Beta (Build 201307092200) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 23.25-b01, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.7.0_25-b17 OS: Windows 7 User Comments: rweaver: Updating JavaDoc on large code base - about a third the way through the update got this error. Stacktrace: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.source.util.DocTreePath.<init>(DocTreePath.java:93) at org.netbeans.api.java.source.TreeUtilities.pathFor(TreeUtilities.java:386) at org.netbeans.api.java.source.DocTreePathHandle$DocTreeDelegate.resolvePathForPos(DocTreePathHandle.java:326) at org.netbeans.api.java.source.DocTreePathHandle$DocTreeDelegate.resolve(DocTreePathHandle.java:317) at org.netbeans.api.java.source.DocTreePathHandle.resolve(DocTreePathHandle.java:135) at org.netbeans.modules.javadoc.hints.RemoveTagFix.performRewrite(RemoveTagFix.java:86)
Created attachment 140143 [details] stacktrace
I could not reproduce, but found a possible bug when DocTreePathHandle points to an element which has no longer a doc comment. Fixed in jet-main#410d6ade7265
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201502280001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/410d6ade7265 User: Svata Dedic <sdedic@netbeans.org> Log: #236039: stop search if doc comment is missing