Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] New ICU, new NPEs

[Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Further investigation reveal that I wrongly incriminated ICU. Sorry about that.
Nothing to see, move along :)

Pascal

On 2012-11-27, at 3:30 PM, Pascal Rapicault wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As I'm just trying out today's build I noticed that the contract for com.icu.text.Collator#comparator has changed in an incompatible way.
> Indeed the comparator method no longer accept null as parameter, and will throw an NPE. For an example of the stack trace, you can see in http://bug.eclipse.org/395210.
> 
> Note that not only does that affect direct users of the Collator but it also probably affects users of JFace ViewerComparator.
> 
> Pascal
>