GherkinEditorDocument.editorDocument" is null

[mpkorstanje]

👓 What did you see?

1. Open a feature file.
2. Right click any heading
3. Click Run As > Cucumber Feature

Observe:

An internal error occurred during: "Launching Cucumber".
Cannot invoke "io.cucumber.eclipse.editor.document.GherkinEditorDocument.getFeature()" because "editorDocument" is null

✅ What did you expect to see?

The execution of a run configuration for the selected feature file/scenario.

Manually creating the run configuration works as expected.

📦 Which tool/library version are you using?

• cucumber-eclipse: 3.0.0.202605141400, presumably from d9caf62
• Eclipse: 2026-03 (4.39.0)

🔬 How could we reproduce it?

No response

📚 Any additional context?

No response

[laeubi]

@mpkorstanje can you provide a stacktrace (e.g. vom the error log or logfile?)

[mpkorstanje]

Ah sorry. Didn't copy past the whole thing.

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "io.cucumber.eclipse.editor.document.GherkinEditorDocument.getFeature()" because "editorDocument" is null
	at io.cucumber.eclipse.editor.launching.CucumberFeatureLaunchShortcut$2.run(CucumberFeatureLaunchShortcut.java:78)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job$2.run(Job.java:187)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:63)