Question

My eclipse seems to crash every time with a Stackoverflow error every time I add an xml file to my Android project in the /res/menu section. Here’s the error log that it generates, has anyone encountered this problem before?

eclipse.buildId=M20110210-1200
java.version=1.6.0_24
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

Error
Thu Apr 28 10:34:18 EDT 2011
Unhandled event loop exception

java.lang.StackOverflowError
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.StructuredDocumentRegionProxy.setStructuredDocumentRegion(StructuredDocumentRegionProxy.java:338)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:423)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelUpdater.changeStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelUpdater.java:440)
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.
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repeats hundreds of times

Thanks,
Teja.

Answer 1

What I was doing was to do new file and change its extension to .xml. This is creating an empty xml in the menu section which was somehow triggering the stackoverflow exception. If I browse further down the list, there’s an option to create a new Android XML File in Eclipse. It’ll pre populate the XML with a LinearLayout, and the errors have stopped now.