ComboBox accepts setItems(null) but later throws NPE when layout() is called.

See subject.

ComboBox should either reject null in setItems(), or guard against null without failing during layout().

See attached example. The exception should have happened in FXMLLoader.load(), not in javafx.scene.Parent.layout() - or it shouldn't have happened at all.

SEVERE: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.ComboBoxListViewSkin.getIndexOfComboBoxValueInItemsList(ComboBoxListViewSkin.java:444)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.ComboBoxListViewSkin.updateDisplayNode(ComboBoxListViewSkin.java:392)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.ComboBoxListViewSkin.getDisplayNode(ComboBoxListViewSkin.java:229)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.ComboBoxBaseSkin.updateDisplayArea(ComboBoxBaseSkin.java:125)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.ComboBoxBaseSkin.computePrefHeight(ComboBoxBaseSkin.java:180)
at javafx.scene.Parent.prefHeight(Parent.java:879)
at javafx.scene.layout.Region.prefHeight(Region.java:1384)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.computePrefHeight(Control.java:804)
at javafx.scene.Parent.prefHeight(Parent.java:879)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.prefHeight(Control.java:686)
at javafx.scene.layout.Region.computeChildPrefAreaHeight(Region.java:1599)
at javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane.computeChildHeight(AnchorPane.java:296)
at javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane.layoutChildren(AnchorPane.java:327)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1018)
at javafx.scene.Scene.layoutDirtyRoots(Scene.java:513)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doLayoutPass(Scene.java:484)
at javafx.scene.Scene.preferredSize(Scene.java:1485)
at javafx.scene.Scene.impl_preferredSize(Scene.java:1512)
at javafx.stage.Window$10.invalidated(Window.java:719)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.markInvalid(BooleanPropertyBase.java:127)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.set(BooleanPropertyBase.java:161)
at javafx.stage.Window.setShowing(Window.java:782)
at javafx.stage.Window.show(Window.java:797)
at javafx.stage.Stage.show(Stage.java:229)
at loadfxml.Main.start(Main.java:47)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$5.run(LauncherImpl.java:319)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$5.run(PlatformImpl.java:207)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4.run(PlatformImpl.java:173)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:76)