simple null pointer issue in web app
m_ok Jul 26, 2005 11:39 AMSo I looked in Jira and the old forum but I couldn't find a mention of this.
It's very simple, if you have no controller/variables under your task and task-node, as in :
<start-state name="create new web sale order"> <task swimlane="buyer"> </task> <transition to="evaluate web order" /> </start-state>
,when you click "save and close" you get:
11:09:52,156 ERROR [[/jbpm]] Root cause java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jbpm.webapp.bean.TaskBean.save(TaskBean.java:86) at org.jbpm.webapp.bean.TaskBean.saveAndClose(TaskBean.java:116) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.myfaces.el.MethodBindingImpl.invoke(MethodBindingImpl.java:138) at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:62) at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:106) at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastForPhase(UIViewRoot.java:110) at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:184) at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.invokeApplication(LifecycleImpl.java:271) at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:102) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jbpm.webapp.filter.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AuthenticationFilter.java:25) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jbpm.webapp.filter.PersistenceFilter.doFilter(PersistenceFilter.java:28) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jbpm.webapp.filter.ContextFilter.doFilter(ContextFilter.java:19) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jbpm.webapp.filter.LogFilter.doFilter(LogFilter.java:38) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve.invoke(CustomPrincipalValve.java:39) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:153) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:59) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
because of this little piece of code:
public String save() { log.debug("saving the task parameters "+taskFormParameters); // collect the parameter values from the values that were updated in the // parameters by jsf. Map submitParameters = new HashMap(); -->> Iterator iter = taskFormParameters.iterator();
Documentation says that variable attribute multiplicity is [0...*], btw.
So there you go, hope this helps and that I'm not posting something that's already fixed.