Exploded portlet deployer with service builder portlet fails

• Type: Regression Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.0 CE RC1, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.0 CE RC1, --Sprint 11/12, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Component/s: Tools, Tools > Plugins SDK > Portlets
• Labels:
  • QA-R
• Similar Issues: Show 5 results ; ;

  LPS-26262	Exploded deploy a portlet failed
  LPS-21171	Sample Service Builder plugin portlet fails to compile
  LPS-35085	exploded directory deployment for portlet on tomcat fails to init after restart of server
  LPS-323	Compilation of sample service builder portlet failed with exceptions
  LPS-28827	test-pacl-portlet - Distinguish between an exploded and unexploded war file

15:52:29,385 INFO [PortletExplodedTomcatListener:60] Modifying portlets for d:\dev java\github\bundles\deploy\service-test-portlet.xml
15:52:29,486 ERROR [AutoDeployDir:197] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: java.lang.NullPointerException
com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.exploded.tomcat.PortletExplodedTomcatDeployer.explodedTomcatDeploy(PortletExplodedTomcatDeployer.java:39)
at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.exploded.tomcat.PortletExplodedTomcatListener.deploy(PortletExplodedTomcatListener.java:63)
at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.exploded.tomcat.BaseExplodedTomcatListener.deploy(BaseExplodedTomcatListener.java:61)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.processFile(AutoDeployDir.java:180)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.scanDirectory(AutoDeployDir.java:222)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner.run(AutoDeployScanner.java:50)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.copyProperties(BaseDeployer.java:385)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployDirectory(BaseDeployer.java:512)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployDirectory(BaseDeployer.java:696)
at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.exploded.tomcat.PortletExplodedTomcatDeployer.explodedTomcatDeploy(PortletExplodedTomcatDeployer.java:35)
... 5 more

[Gregory Amerson]

The probelm seems to be that the exploded tomcat deployer calls deployDirectory(...) and passing in a null for PluginPackage. The method BaseDeployer.copyProperties() tries to access PluginPackage.

[Gregory Amerson]

Submitted pull request:
https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/3294

[Juan G]

Thanks very much Gregory!

[Michael Saechang]

Committed on:
6.1.x Revision: 96127.
6.2.x Revision: 96086.

[Gregory Amerson]

Here are the steps to test:

1. Create a new portlet project called "exploded" using ./create.sh|bat
2. Add an simple service.xml to docroot/WEB-INF/ folder, have at least one entity in the service.xml
3. run ant build-service
4. run ant war
5. unzip the contents of the war file into a new directory called exploded-portlet
6. manually copy exploded-portlet directory to the tomcat/webapps folder
7. start tomcat
8. create an xml file that has these contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context docBase="<path_to_portal_6.1_directory>\tomcat-7.0.23\webapps\exploded-portlet" reloadable="true" />

9. copy this XML file into the auto deploy directory.

If it works you should see a message like this in the tomcat log:

06:08:59,599 INFO [AutoDeployDir:167] Processing exploded-portlet.xml
06:08:59,637 INFO [PortletExplodedTomcatListener:60] Modifying portlets for D:\
dev java\testing\liferay-portal-6.1.0\deploy\exploded-portlet.xml
Copying 1 file to D:\dev java\testing\liferay-portal-6.1.0\tomcat-7.0.23\webap
ps\exploded-portlet\WEB-INF\classes
Copying 1 file to D:\dev java\testing\liferay-portal-6.1.0\tomcat-7.0.23\webap
ps\exploded-portlet\WEB-INF\classes
Copying 1 file to D:\dev java\testing\liferay-portal-6.1.0\tomcat-7.0.23\webap
ps\exploded-portlet\META-INF
Copying 1 file to D:\dev java\testing\liferay-portal-6.1.0\tomcat-7.0.23\webap
ps\exploded-portlet\WEB-INF\jsp
06:09:00,093 INFO [PortletExplodedTomcatListener:66] Portlets for D:\dev java\t
esting\liferay-portal-6.1.0\deploy\exploded-portlet.xml modified successfully
06:09:00,094 INFO [BaseExplodedTomcatListener:48] Copying file D:\dev java\test
ing\liferay-portal-6.1.0\deploy\exploded-portlet.xml to ../conf/Catalina/localho
st
Jan 4, 2012 6:09:01 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources
INFO: Reloading context [/exploded-portlet]
Loading file:/D:/dev%20java/testing/liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/e
xploded-portlet/WEB-INF/classes/service.properties
Loading file:/D:/dev%20java/testing/liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/e
xploded-portlet/WEB-INF/classes/service.properties
06:09:01,872 INFO [PluginPackageUtil:1099] Reading plugin package for exploded-
portlet
Loading file:/D:/dev%20java/testing/liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/e
xploded-portlet/WEB-INF/classes/service.properties
06:09:01,943 INFO [ServiceComponentLocalServiceImpl:183] Running test SQL scrip
ts
Loading file:/D:/dev%20java/testing/liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/e
xploded-portlet/WEB-INF/classes/portlet.properties
Loading file:/D:/dev%20java/testing/liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/e
xploded-portlet/WEB-INF/classes/portlet.properties
06:09:02,020 INFO [PortletHotDeployListener:612] Registering portlets for explo
ded-portlet
Loading file:/D:/dev%20java/testing/liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/e
xploded-portlet/WEB-INF/classes/portlet.properties
06:09:02,141 INFO [PortletHotDeployListener:431] 1 portlet for exploded-portlet
is available for use

[Paul Piao]

PASSED Manual Testing following Gregory comment steps.

Reproduced on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. 6.2.x GIT ID: fe4f580635650e4a77590a967a98f629bb65c024.
On affect ID. I can see the description said error message "NullPointerException".

Fixed on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. 6.2.x GIT ID: 18fe20dc76cab039caabeeb5aa5951dd48deabe1.
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. 6.1.x GIT ID: 643b35472119d7e762d28e98a78a43b9a3ef0e2d.
On fixed ID. I can not find the error message. It is working.