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Don't know how to reproduce java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.JavaHintsProvider.getHints(JavaHintsProvider.java:170) at org.netbeans.modules.editor.hints.HintsOperator$HintPopupTaskImpl.run(HintsOperator.java:270) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:541) [catch] at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:963) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.fullType(MDRParser.java:1366) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.processASTBody(MDRParser.java:1975) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.resolveClassName(MDRParser.java:2283) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.processASTBody(MDRParser.java:1628) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.processASTBody(MDRParser.java:1619) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.processASTBody(MDRParser.java:1586) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.enterBody(MDRParser.java:214) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.doAttribution(MDRParser.java:181) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.MDRParser.isVariableAccess(MDRParser.java:1035) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.MetadataElement.getElementProxy(MetadataElement.java:639) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.MetadataElement.createElement(MetadataElement.java:560) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.MetadataElement.initOrCreate(MetadataElement.java:1338) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.TypeReferenceImpl.initChildren(TypeReferenceImpl.java:74) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.TypeReferenceImpl.getParent(TypeReferenceImpl.java:42) at org.netbeans.jmi.javamodel.ArrayReference$Impl.getParent(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.TypeReferenceImpl.getChildren(TypeReferenceImpl.java:64) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.ElementFinder.getElementByOffset(ElementFinder.java:46) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.ResourceImpl.getElementByOffset(ResourceImpl.java:1667) at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.JavaHintsProvider.getHints(JavaHintsProvider.java:142) ... 3 more
I am closing all reports in category Java/Unsupported as wontfix. These should be dead issues --- if the reported cases are against some live part of the NetBeans IDE please reopen and we can discuss to which category they belong.