Javascript Validator problem in Eclipse

Eduardo Yáñez Parareda

This is a problem that has happened to me on some Web Dynamic projects. Every time the project is built, I get this error:

“Errors occurred during the build.
Errors running builder ‘JavaScript Validator’ on project ‘some-project’.
java.lang.NullPointerException”

At a first sight it seems that a Javascript validator is throwing a NullPointerException, so probably you will try to disable ‘Client-side Javascript’ validation from Project->Properties->Validation… but I tell you that the problem is not there, you must go to Project->Properties->Builders then disable ‘Javascript Validator’.

Problem solved. Indeed is not a real problem, but the message is a bit annoying because it happens in every build so….

79 thoughts on “Javascript Validator problem in Eclipse”

  1. Rudiger April 13, 2011 / 9:54 pm

    Fuck Eclipse and their JavaScript Validator. It’s worse than useless.

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    • Rich July 26, 2011 / 11:20 am

      Ha ha very well said!!!

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    • jahbini March 27, 2012 / 7:05 am

      Yup. An error message modal dialog that comes up every 30 seconds and means nothing is why Eclipse designers should be kept on a very short leash. The message give no hint as to where the problem is, and no hint of how to suppress it.

      It is only through the power of crowd-sourced IQ points that I can use Eclipse at all.

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    • jahbini March 27, 2012 / 7:07 am

      Amen. Error messages like this are worse than useless. Like a ball and chain for developers.

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  2. Ray April 14, 2011 / 1:47 pm

    Thanks. This is the solution location from a Google search. About 10 entries prior to this one was returned by Google.

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  3. theo September 9, 2011 / 5:33 pm

    Wow, this error was getting to me. Thanks for the help!

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  4. Bhaskar September 30, 2011 / 7:11 pm

    Thanks allot. It worked 😀

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  5. kyuwha October 5, 2011 / 11:10 am

    this problem is getting me, join a company at first day, thank you for the help

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  6. jyson October 6, 2011 / 10:17 pm

    I got alot of following errors after change to new eclipse.
    Syntax error on token “-“, ArrayLiteralHeader expected after this token
    Syntax error on token “/”, delete this token

    i did as what you suggested. No luck for me.

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    • Eduardo Yáñez Parareda October 7, 2011 / 9:15 am

      I think that has nothing to do with disabling Javascript Validator on Builders config. The solution I proposed is not for disabling Javascript errors or so, it’s only for the NullPointerException I mentioned in the article.

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    • chakravarthi January 19, 2012 / 2:25 pm

      wordcount_cleanregex’, /[0-9.(),;:!?%#$¿'”_+=\\\/-]*/g
      use this exp and no need to worry about these false errors….

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  7. Dave November 3, 2011 / 2:12 am

    Fantastic, quick and direct.

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  8. Faisal Feroz November 15, 2011 / 5:32 pm

    Thanks, this has been annoying me.

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  9. Andrew Theiss November 22, 2011 / 8:14 pm

    Thanks man, that was annoying. 2 sec fix ftw!

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  10. anandpatadiya November 25, 2011 / 6:08 am

    thanx man its mndblwng…..i was disturbed from two days for this error…

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  11. Tzvi December 1, 2011 / 2:43 pm

    Thanks, This is what I was looking for!

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  12. Jignesh December 30, 2011 / 12:48 pm

    Thanks

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  13. cbhaskaravignesh January 2, 2012 / 9:41 pm

    I disabled it in the builders but now am not able to build the project at all. am stuck with this.

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  14. aodto January 6, 2012 / 4:20 am

    this post got me solved. thanks

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  15. Curdo January 9, 2012 / 4:20 pm

    Thanks for this. It worked!

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  16. vijay January 25, 2012 / 7:18 am

    thanks alot, it was worked…………….!!!

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  17. Liz February 13, 2012 / 8:28 pm

    What if you do want the validator on for js? Then what? Tx!

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    • Eduardo Yáñez Parareda February 14, 2012 / 11:26 am

      I’m sorry, I have no idea try another tool that validates your Javascript, but although you don’t have enabled the Builder->Validation, the javascript is validated for syntax errors.

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  18. Sandro Chierici February 27, 2012 / 11:58 am

    Thanks, very useful post. Js problems has been annoying me from a long time.
    sandro

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  19. olavocno February 29, 2012 / 10:35 pm

    interesting. only happened this in big projects. But, thanks!!

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  20. Pankaj March 14, 2012 / 4:52 pm

    Thanks a lot, it worked like butter.

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  21. Hernan April 18, 2012 / 2:29 am

    Thanks…… a lot!!

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  22. biyya April 19, 2012 / 7:48 pm

    Thanks a bunch. I don’t think even MyEclipse folks know a way around this. lol thanks again.

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  23. TetraDog April 26, 2012 / 8:56 pm

    One year later and still google’s top. I nominate Blind Coder for sainthood.

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  24. notyourcousintim May 5, 2012 / 5:21 am

    Thanks a lot man, that error was annoying as hell!

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  25. elDuke May 9, 2012 / 4:34 pm

    Thanks! This was so annoying!

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  26. Bala May 18, 2012 / 7:58 am

    Thanks a lot …. u really saved my life….

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  27. awdawd May 30, 2012 / 9:32 am

    Thanks, I almost kicked the computer .. that messages is simply f****d up.

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  28. edbe June 11, 2012 / 8:22 pm

    thanks. i have looking for this solution for two weeks

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  29. Raghu June 20, 2012 / 12:11 pm

    Thank you very much, i wasted lot of time for the solution

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  30. srini June 23, 2012 / 5:27 pm

    Thank you. It saved my time

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  31. subdaimon July 8, 2012 / 3:12 am

    Thx, you just saved my laptop from being thrown out the window. The JS Validator is a real POS

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  32. icastel August 4, 2012 / 6:47 am

    Sonnaffabiatch! That was it! LOL

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  33. julien October 5, 2012 / 6:53 pm

    Thanks a lot.

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  34. ali kemal November 12, 2012 / 5:28 pm

    thanks very much…
    It was a really annoying message…

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  35. Alexander December 12, 2012 / 5:44 pm

    ეკლიპსის Javascript ვალიდატორს შევეცი

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  36. Vikash Agarwal December 20, 2012 / 6:12 am

    thanks for the tip ….

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  38. Ponraj Suthanthiramani January 3, 2013 / 7:22 am

    Cool, it worked for me, it was frustrating me for a week, now i am settled… thx

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  39. Artur January 20, 2013 / 11:22 am

    best solution !

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  40. Aitor January 30, 2013 / 10:15 am

    It works! thanks! gracias!

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  42. nitish pandey March 2, 2013 / 3:33 pm

    Thanks so much for this solution. It just kept bugging me and no matter how many changes i tried in all the other options related to JS validation (disable) but it just won’t go away. But now how do we validate JS in eclipse? Some other day 🙂

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  43. John O. Morales April 4, 2013 / 11:29 am

    Thanks a lot bro!

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  44. gesu April 16, 2013 / 9:50 am

    its working! Thanks a lot ! validator is useless

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  45. thana May 23, 2013 / 8:24 am

    Thank you for this., it helped.,

    Its wired this only happened when i first sat the project to js nature, then removed the project and reimported again.,

    Could not find any way to remove the js project nature., and set it againg though..

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  46. fredfred May 29, 2013 / 6:37 pm

    Thanks a lot! That helped after messing around for over an hour with workspace re-builds and validation settings.

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  48. Gaurav June 21, 2013 / 9:15 am

    Thanks! Finally got rid of the annoying error alerts!

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  49. Frank Kim June 21, 2013 / 3:37 pm

    Thank you! I’ve been living with that error for too long. 🙂

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  50. Praveen June 27, 2013 / 3:35 pm

    Thanks a lot …………….. you saved my night………

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  52. juju September 15, 2013 / 12:42 pm

    Great ! Easy to do but so confortable after!!!

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  53. Jay September 24, 2013 / 5:21 pm

    Thank you sooooo much 🙂

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    • Harsh Mehta November 13, 2013 / 10:13 am

      Thanks dude for the help. I really appreciate it 🙂

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  54. Steve November 26, 2013 / 1:08 pm

    If the problem still persists – good old turn in on and back off me (in builders) seemed to do the trick

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    • shivani August 21, 2015 / 8:30 am

      thanks .. this helped me a lot

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  55. pinar December 5, 2013 / 3:22 pm

    very helpful thanks

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  56. thiruk December 11, 2013 / 10:50 am

    thanks.. this helped me out.. 🙂

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  57. saranya July 18, 2014 / 2:21 pm

    Thanks buddy

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  59. Sri Krishna Chaitanya September 10, 2014 / 7:26 pm

    helped me a lot Hare Krishna!

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  60. Peter Drinnan September 16, 2014 / 8:19 pm

    I find that with the new frameworks such as Knockout and Angular, the Javascript validator is totally useless anyway.

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  61. Jay Soni December 29, 2014 / 2:31 pm

    thanks alot it worked

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  62. Peter Tutor February 27, 2015 / 2:22 pm

    Thanks man! After each auto-rebuilding comes this annoying message. I have to turn it off!
    Thanks for the solution.

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  63. Gergely November 18, 2015 / 2:58 pm

    I have been watching this godforsaken message popping up constantly for half a day. Had no idea how to deal with it. Whoever is responsible for this, I would make him watch the whole Dallas-saga with this message showing up every half a minute just to make things even worse.

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  64. lova February 15, 2016 / 5:56 pm

    very good answer .. thank you

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  65. Antony Nalkara April 4, 2016 / 7:19 am

    Thanks,That worked

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  66. biang August 30, 2016 / 4:06 am

    there is no builders myeclipse

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