Staging Local Live: Publishing a scoped portlet on a selected page after an initial publish it will fail

• Type: Regression Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.X EE, 7.0.0 M3
• Fix Version/s: 6.2.2 CE GA3 , 7.0.0 M1
• Component/s: Staging
• Labels:
  • liferay-fixpack-wcm-core-13-6210
• Fix Priority: 4
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/18227

This issue happens when a user creates 2 pages with a portlet on each. Then the user scopes on of the portlets to the page and then publishes just the first page. When the user then publishes again with the second page it will fail. I tried this with Blogs and Web Content Display.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Activate Staging local live
2. Add 2 pages
3. On each page add a portlet (ie blogs)
4. On page 1 add a blogs entry
5. On page 2 configure the blogs portlet to be scoped to page 2
6. Add a blogs entry to the portlet on page 2
7. Publish to live and select only page 1 in the page change
8. Assert the page, portlet, and entry are published in live
9. Go back to staging and publish and select page 2 as well
10. If doing these steps it blogs it will be successful but the content will not publish in live, and if done with web content display it will fail and throw a console error (below)

Expected result:
The second page, portlet, and entry should be published and visible on live.

Actual result:
The content doesn't display with blogs and with wc it fails totally and throws a console error.

23:18:56,770 ERROR [liferay/background_task-1][BackgroundTaskMessageListener:133] Unable to execute background task
com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.PortletDataException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.BasePortletDataHandler.processImportPortletPreferences(BasePortletDataHandler.java:542)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.PortletImporter.importPortletPreferences(PortletImporter.java:1163)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.LayoutImporter.doImportLayouts(LayoutImporter.java:611)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.LayoutImporter.importLayouts(LayoutImporter.java:118)
        at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.LayoutLocalServiceImpl.importLayouts(LayoutLocalServiceImpl.java:1756)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:115)
        at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.LayoutLocalServiceVirtualLayoutsAdvice.invoke(LayoutLocalServiceVirtualLayoutsAdvice.java:180)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:111)
        at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.LayoutLocalServiceStagingAdvice.invoke(LayoutLocalServiceStagingAdvice.java:141)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:111)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:62)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:51)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:111)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanAopProxy.invoke(ServiceBeanAopProxy.java:175)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy33.importLayouts(Unknown Source)
        at com.liferay.portal.service.LayoutLocalServiceUtil.importLayouts(LayoutLocalServiceUtil.java:1282)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.backgroundtask.LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor$LayoutStagingCallable.call(LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:184)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.backgroundtask.LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor$LayoutStagingCallable.call(LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:1)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionalCallableUtil$CallableMethodInvocation.proceed(TransactionalCallableUtil.java:84)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:62)
        at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionalCallableUtil.call(TransactionalCallableUtil.java:36)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.backgroundtask.LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.execute(LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:76)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.backgroundtask.SerialBackgroundTaskExecutor.execute(SerialBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:56)
        at com.liferay.portal.backgroundtask.messaging.BackgroundTaskMessageListener.doReceive(BackgroundTaskMessageListener.java:108)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.BaseMessageListener.receive(BaseMessageListener.java:26)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.InvokerMessageListener.receive(InvokerMessageListener.java:72)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.ParallelDestination$1.run(ParallelDestination.java:69)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask._runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:682)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:593)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.StagedModelDataHandlerUtil._getStagedModelDataHandler(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:356)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.importStagedModel(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:315)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.importReferenceStagedModels(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:278)
        at com.liferay.portlet.journal.lar.JournalContentPortletDataHandler.doProcessImportPortletPreferences(JournalContentPortletDataHandler.java:214)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.BasePortletDataHandler.processImportPortletPreferences(BasePortletDataHandler.java:535)
        ... 33 more