Cannot create a new message board post through add-message API

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.X EE, Master
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0 DXP FP23, 7.0.X EE, 7.0.4 CE GA5, 7.1.X, Master
• Component/s: Web Services, Web Services > JSON WS
• Labels:
  • INACTIVE
  • QA-F
  • liferay-digital-enterprise-70-sp5
  • liferay-fixpack-de-12-7010
  • liferay-fixpack-de-23-7010
• Branch Version/s:
  7.0.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Story Points: 1.25
• Fix Priority: 4
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/50112

Issue
Cannot create a new message board post through add-message API

Steps to reproduce

1. Start a clean DXP bundle
2. Login
3. Add Message Boards to home page
4. Create a new category and retrieve its CategoryId (e.g. http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home/-/message_boards/category/34247 – 34247)
5. Access add-message API
   http://localhost:8080/api/jsonws?contextName=&signature=%2Fmbmessage%2Fadd-message-4-categoryId-subject-body-serviceContext
6. Fill in categoryId, subject and body

   categoryId - 34247
   subject - hello
   body - hello hello hello
   

7. Invoke
8. java.lang.NullPointerException is thrown
9. Access another version of add-message API
   http://localhost:8080/api/jsonws?contextName=&signature=%2Fmbmessage%2Fadd-message-11-groupId-categoryId-subject-body-format-fileName-file-anonymous-priority-allowPingbacks-serviceContext
10. Fill in the groupId (siteId), categoryId, subject and body
    siteId - 20143
    categoryId - 34247
    subject - hello
    body - hello hello hello

11. Set format to html, anonymous and priority to 1
12. Invoke

Actual results
java.lang.NullPointerException is thrown

Expected results
Can create a new post through add-message API

Reproduced in
de-10
branch - ee-7.0.x - a63e895a3ede33f4dce1b2b94dd28eab5132354c
master - af43248cbd21e4737f180de01ff5d9480094a453