java.lang.NullPointerException error when publish at staging local and no webcontent are modified

• Type: Regression Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.X EE
• Fix Version/s: 6.2.2 CE GA3 , 6.2.X EE, 7.0.0 M1
• Component/s: Sites Administration, Staging, WCM, WCM > Publication
• Labels:
  • QA-TP
  • liferay-fixpack-document-management-10-6210
  • liferay-fixpack-wcm-core-13-6210
• Branch Version/s:
  6.2.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Epic/Theme:
  • escalation
• Story Points: 6
• Fix Priority: 3
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal-ee/pull/5827

The issue is not reproduced at master.

The issue is reproduced at 6.2.x branch following this steps:

1. Create a new site
2. Import two images at document library
3. Activate local staging
4. Create one page
5. At this page add two webcontent, at ckeditor, each webcontent must include a image from DL:
6. Publish to Live:
   1. At "Content" section, select "Choose Content" => "Date Range" => "From Last Publish Date Change"
   2. The publication process will work fine
7. Reorder webcontent portlets at page (And/Or) Add other non webcontent portlet, like blog portlet
8. Publish again to live:
   1. At "Content" section, select "Choose Content" => "Date Range" => "From Last Publish Date Change"
   2. The publication process will FAIL, showing the error "java.lang.NullPointerException"

IMPORTANT: At 6.2 SP5 version, the issue is also reproduced when you Publish to Live and at "Content" section, select "All Content", this problem is fixed with LPS-42218, but this is not included at SP5, so this other LPS must be also added to future fixpacks.

At log file, the folowing error will be shown:

 
10:15:29,742 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.BaseStagedModelDataHandler.importStagedModel(BaseStagedModelDataHandler.java:170)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.importStagedModel(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:324)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.importReferenceStagedModels(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:285)
        at com.liferay.portlet.journal.lar.JournalContentPortletDataHandler.doProcessImportPortletPreferences(JournalContentPortletDataHandler.java:214)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.BasePortletDataHandler.processImportPortletPreferences(BasePortletDataHandler.java:585)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.PortletImporter.importPortletPreferences(PortletImporter.java:1159)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.LayoutImporter.doImportLayouts(LayoutImporter.java:589)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.LayoutImporter.importLayouts(LayoutImporter.java:117)
        at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.LayoutLocalServiceImpl.importLayouts(LayoutLocalServiceImpl.java:1761)
        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:183)
        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._getStagedModel(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:331)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.importStagedModel(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:312)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.importReferenceStagedModel(StagedModelDataHandlerUtil.java:232)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.ExportImportHelperImpl.replaceImportDLReferences(ExportImportHelperImpl.java:955)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.ExportImportHelperUtil.replaceImportDLReferences(ExportImportHelperUtil.java:185)
        at com.liferay.portal.lar.ExportImportHelperImpl.replaceImportContentReferences(ExportImportHelperImpl.java:903)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.ExportImportHelperUtil.replaceImportContentReferences(ExportImportHelperUtil.java:175)
        at com.liferay.portlet.journal.lar.JournalArticleStagedModelDataHandler.doImportStagedModel(JournalArticleStagedModelDataHandler.java:417)
        at com.liferay.portlet.journal.lar.JournalArticleStagedModelDataHandler.doImportStagedModel(JournalArticleStagedModelDataHandler.java:1)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.lar.BaseStagedModelDataHandler.importStagedModel(BaseStagedModelDataHandler.java:161)
        ... 37 more