RESOLVED - bug 267960: guess the mime type of attachments from the filename using plug-in registered meta-data

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267960

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core/src/org/eclipse/mylyn/internal/tasks/core/data/FileTaskAttachmentSource.java b/org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core/src/org/eclipse/mylyn/internal/tasks/core/data/FileTaskAttachmentSource.java
index f2eacb250..6c0a59f33 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core/src/org/eclipse/mylyn/internal/tasks/core/data/FileTaskAttachmentSource.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core/src/org/eclipse/mylyn/internal/tasks/core/data/FileTaskAttachmentSource.java
@@ -75,14 +75,17 @@ public class FileTaskAttachmentSource extends AbstractTaskAttachmentSource {
 			}
 			// bug 267960 attempt to detect the mime type from the content type
 			IContentTypeManager contentTypeManager = Platform.getContentTypeManager();
-			IContentType contentType = contentTypeManager.findContentTypeFor(fileName);
-			while (contentType != null) {
-				if (IContentTypeManager.CT_TEXT.equals(contentType.getId())) {
-					return TEXT_PLAIN;
-				} else if ("org.eclipse.core.runtime.xml".equals(contentType.getId())) { //$NON-NLS-1$
-					return APPLICATION_XML;
+			// platform may not be available when running standalone
+			if (contentTypeManager != null) {
+				IContentType contentType = contentTypeManager.findContentTypeFor(fileName);
+				while (contentType != null) {
+					if (IContentTypeManager.CT_TEXT.equals(contentType.getId())) {
+						return TEXT_PLAIN;
+					} else if ("org.eclipse.core.runtime.xml".equals(contentType.getId())) { //$NON-NLS-1$
+						return APPLICATION_XML;
+					}
+					contentType = contentType.getBaseType();
 				}
-				contentType = contentType.getBaseType();
 			}
 		}