Upgrading a 5.2 database to 6.1 with a manual selection Asset Publisher fails.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.0.12 EE, 6.1.0 CE GA1, 6.1.10 EE GA1
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.10 EE GA1, 6.1.20 EE GA2, --Sprint 11/12, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Component/s: None
• Labels:
  • QA-R
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Fix Priority: 4
• Added to Fix Pack:
  Added

Upgrading a 5.2 database to 6.1 with a manual selection Asset Publisher fails.

Here is the log section and some debugging I added. In my case I was going from EE 5.2 SP3 to EE 6.1. I had this issue with a clean 5.2 db with only an asset publisher with a manual selection web content. No other data in the db, so should be easy to recreate. Based on the upgrade that fails, it's possible this will also happen with a 6.0 db.

22:55:22,679 INFO  [UpgradeProcess:207] Upgrading com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v6_0_3.UpgradeAssetPublisher
22:55:22,681 DEBUG [UpgradeAssetPublisher:79] upgradePreferences:selectionStyle: manual
22:55:22,682 DEBUG [UpgradeAssetPublisher:89] assetEntryXmls: 1
22:55:22,682 DEBUG [UpgradeAssetPublisher:91]    assetEntryXml: <?xml version="1.0"?>

<asset>
        <assetEntryId>10196</assetEntryId>
        <assetEntryType>com.liferay.portlet.journal.model.JournalArticle</assetEntryType>
</asset>
22:55:22,683 DEBUG [UpgradeAssetPublisher:46] getAssetEntryXmls:document [email protected] [Document: name null]
22:55:22,683 DEBUG [UpgradeAssetPublisherManualEntries:80] upgradeToAssetEntryUuidElement:rootElement
22:55:22,683 DEBUG [UpgradeAssetPublisherManualEntries:81]    [email protected] [Element: <asset attributes: []/>]
22:55:22,684 ERROR [MainServlet:201] com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.ActionException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.ActionException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupAction.run(StartupAction.java:58)
        at com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet.processStartupEvents(MainServlet.java:1284)
        at com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet.init(MainServlet.java:198)
        at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1266)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1185)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1080)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5015)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5302)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:897)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:873)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:649)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1581)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:213)
        at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.UpgradeProcessUtil._upgradeProcess(UpgradeProcessUtil.java:103)
        at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.UpgradeProcessUtil.upgradeProcess(UpgradeProcessUtil.java:56)
        at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.UpgradeProcessUtil.upgradeProcess(UpgradeProcessUtil.java:36)
        at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupHelper.upgradeProcess(StartupHelper.java:81)
        at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupHelperUtil.upgradeProcess(StartupHelperUtil.java:48)
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.DBUpgrader.upgrade(DBUpgrader.java:119)
        at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupAction.doRun(StartupAction.java:144)
        at com.liferay.portal.ee.license.StartupAction.doRun(Unknown Source)
        at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupAction.run(StartupAction.java:52)
        ... 20 more
Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:213)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:227)
        at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.UpgradeProcess_6_0_3.doUpgrade(UpgradeProcess_6_0_3.java:42)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:210)
        ... 29 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.util.UpgradeAssetPublisherManualEntries.upgradeToAssetEntryUuidElement(UpgradeAssetPublisherManualEntries.java:87)
        at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v6_0_3.UpgradeAssetPublisher.getAssetEntryXmls(UpgradeAssetPublisher.java:51)
        at com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v6_0_3.UpgradeAssetPublisher.upgradePreferences(UpgradeAssetPublisher.java:95)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.BaseUpgradePortletPreferences.updatePortletPreferences(BaseUpgradePortletPreferences.java:273)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.BaseUpgradePortletPreferences.doUpgrade(BaseUpgradePortletPreferences.java:45)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeProcess.upgrade(UpgradeProcess.java:210)
        ... 32 more