Publishing Structured Web Content Reverts Structure to 'Default'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.0 CE M3
• Fix Version/s: 6.2.0 CE M3
• Component/s: Web Content > Web Content Administration
• Labels:
  • WCMStructureEditor
  • WCM_codeathon
• Environment: Tomcat 7.0.27 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: f4e2ae1e7321b9c6f14003f0e681f5d03bee21e9.
• Fix Priority: 4
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/juliocamarero/liferay-portal/pull/934

The Web Content editor loses the structure when the article is saved as a draft or is published.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Add a structure
2. Add a basic web content
   • Select the structure (instead of Default)
3. Publish (or Save as Draft)
4. Edit the web content article
   • When the user re-enters the editor, the structure has reverted back to Default and all the previous structure data values are lost
   • If the user then re-selects the structure within the editor, a console NPE occurs:

23:27:54,809 ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-7][IncludeTag:206] Current URL /group/control_panel/manage?p_auth=2XFQyzcY&p_p_id=15&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&doAsGroupId=19&refererPlid=10167&_15_struts_action=%2Fjournal%2Fedit_article generates exception: null
23:27:54,812 ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-7][IncludeTag:154] java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portlet.dynamicdatamapping.util.DDMXSDImpl.getFieldHTML(DDMXSDImpl.java:134)
        at com.liferay.portlet.dynamicdatamapping.util.DDMXSDImpl.getHTML(DDMXSDImpl.java:236)
        at com.liferay.portlet.dynamicdatamapping.util.DDMXSDImpl.getHTML(DDMXSDImpl.java:282)
        at com.liferay.portlet.dynamicdatamapping.util.DDMXSDImpl.getHTML(DDMXSDImpl.java:263)
        at com.liferay.portlet.dynamicdatamapping.util.DDMXSDUtil.getHTML(DDMXSDUtil.java:93)
        at org.apache.jsp.html.taglib.ddm.html.start_jsp._jspService(start_jsp.java:546)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
        at com.liferay.portal.servlet.DirectRequestDispatcher.include(DirectRequestDispatcher.java:55)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.include(IncludeTag.java:292)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.doInclude(IncludeTag.java:200)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:121)
        at com.liferay.taglib.ddm.base.BaseHTMLTag.doStartTag(BaseHTMLTag.java:30)
        at org.apache.jsp.html.portlet.journal.article.content_jsp._jspService(content_jsp.java:2687)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
        at com.liferay.portal.servlet.DirectRequestDispatcher.include(DirectRequestDispatcher.java:55)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.include(IncludeTag.java:292)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.doInclude(IncludeTag.java:200)
        at com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag.doEndTag(IncludeTag.java:81)