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Unable to open CFBs of my old project in 4diac 1.10 - 1.13 [message #1834817]

Wed, 18 November 2020 14:26

Marc Jakobi

Messages: 67
Registered: April 2017

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Hi,

I have a project hosted on GitHub (I last used it in 4diac 1.9, if I recall correctly): https://github.com/MrcJkb/PVTControllerLib

Somebody contacted me saying that they could not open function blocks in 4diac 1.10 (on Windows), due to a NullPointerException

I just downloaded 4diac 1.13 to see if I could reproduce the issue on my device (running Arch Linux).
I can open interfaces and basic FBs just fine, but when I try to open composite function blocks in the FB editor, I am given the error message "Failed to create the part's controls.", along with the following stack trace:

	org.eclipse.core.runtime.AssertionFailedException: null argument:
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isNotNull(Assert.java:88)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isNotNull(Assert.java:76)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.AbstractEditPart.addChild(AbstractEditPart.java:203)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.AbstractEditPart.refreshChildren(AbstractEditPart.java:781)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.AbstractEditPart.refresh(AbstractEditPart.java:726)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.AbstractGraphicalEditPart.refresh(AbstractGraphicalEditPart.java:644)
	at org.eclipse.fordiac.ide.gef.editparts.AbstractDiagramEditPart.refresh(AbstractDiagramEditPart.java:71)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.AbstractEditPart.addNotify(AbstractEditPart.java:253)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.AbstractGraphicalEditPart.addNotify(AbstractGraphicalEditPart.java:223)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.AbstractEditPart.addChild(AbstractEditPart.java:212)
	at org.eclipse.gef.editparts.SimpleRootEditPart.setContents(SimpleRootEditPart.java:105)
	at org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.AbstractEditPartViewer.setContents(AbstractEditPartViewer.java:617)
	at org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.AbstractEditPartViewer.setContents(AbstractEditPartViewer.java:626)
	at org.eclipse.fordiac.ide.gef.DiagramEditorWithFlyoutPalette.initializeGraphicalViewer(DiagramEditorWithFlyoutPalette.java:232)
	at org.eclipse.fordiac.ide.gef.DiagramEditorWithFlyoutPalette.createGraphicalViewer(DiagramEditorWithFlyoutPalette.java:140)
...

Have there been incompatible changes to CFBs? If so, is there a way I can migrate them?

Best regards,
Marc

[Updated on: Wed, 18 November 2020 14:38]

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Re: Unable to open CFBs of my old project in 4diac 1.10 - 1.13 [message #1834845 is a reply to message #1834817]

Wed, 18 November 2020 20:57

Alois Zoitl

Messages: 1585
Registered: January 2014

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Could it be that the composite FBs have a type missing? I mean that the type of one of the FBs inside the composite FB is missing.

I noticed that we had this issue in 1.13.0 that it didn't gracefully handle that in the type editor. There is a fix in the repo which will be made available with with 1.13.1.

[Updated on: Wed, 18 November 2020 20:57]

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