NoSuchGroupException thrown when enabling staging with a Web Content article referenced from a deleted site

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.X, Master
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0 DXP FP66, 7.0.X, 7.1.10 DXP FP5, 7.1.10.1 SP1, 7.1.2 CE GA3, 7.1.X, Master
• Component/s: Staging
• Labels:
  • ee-ts
  • liferay-dxp-70-sp10
  • liferay-dxp-71-sp1
  • liferay-fixpack-de-66-7010
  • liferay-fixpack-dxp-5-7110
• Branch Version/s:
  7.1.x, 7.0.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Story Points: 0.25
• Fix Priority: 3
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/65578

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create two sites, Site A and Site B
2. On Site A create a new Web Content article
3. On Site B add the Web Content Display widget to a page and choose the article created in Site A
4. Delete Site A
5. Enable Local Live Staging for Site B

Expected Results

Staging would be enabled successfully.

Actual Results

The follow exception is thrown and staging is not enabled:

2018-12-03 22:04:04.930 WARN  [liferay/background_task-1][LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor:177] Unable to publish layout: Unable to update journal content search data during import
2018-12-03 22:04:05.064 ERROR [liferay/background_task-1][BackgroundTaskMessageListener:166] Unable to execute background task
com.liferay.exportimport.kernel.lar.PortletDataException: Unable to update journal content search data during import
	at com.liferay.journal.content.web.internal.exportimport.portlet.preferences.processor.JournalContentExportImportPortletPreferencesProcessor.processImportPortletPreferences(JournalContentExportImportPortletPreferencesProcessor.java:337)
	at com.liferay.exportimport.controller.PortletImportController.importPortletPreferences(PortletImportController.java:1013)
	at com.liferay.exportimport.controller.LayoutImportController.doImportFile(LayoutImportController.java:806)
	at com.liferay.exportimport.controller.LayoutImportController.importFile(LayoutImportController.java:218)
	at com.liferay.portlet.exportimport.service.impl.ExportImportLocalServiceImpl.importLayouts(ExportImportLocalServiceImpl.java:206)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:163)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:54)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:58)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:137)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ChainableMethodAdvice.invoke(ChainableMethodAdvice.java:56)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:137)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanAopProxy.invoke(ServiceBeanAopProxy.java:169)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy110.importLayouts(Unknown Source)
	at com.liferay.exportimport.kernel.service.ExportImportLocalServiceUtil.importLayouts(ExportImportLocalServiceUtil.java:112)
	at com.liferay.exportimport.background.task.LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor$LayoutStagingImportCallable.call(LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:279)
	at com.liferay.exportimport.background.task.LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor$LayoutStagingImportCallable.call(LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:252)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInvokerImpl$CallableMethodInvocation.proceed(TransactionInvokerImpl.java:101)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:54)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInvokerImpl.invoke(TransactionInvokerImpl.java:47)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.transaction.TransactionInvokerUtil.invoke(TransactionInvokerUtil.java:28)
	at com.liferay.exportimport.background.task.LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.execute(LayoutStagingBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:141)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.backgroundtask.SerialBackgroundTaskExecutor.execute(SerialBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:54)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.backgroundtask.DelegatingBackgroundTaskExecutor.execute(DelegatingBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:43)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.backgroundtask.ThreadLocalAwareBackgroundTaskExecutor.execute(ThreadLocalAwareBackgroundTaskExecutor.java:56)
	at com.liferay.portal.background.task.internal.messaging.BackgroundTaskMessageListener.doReceive(BackgroundTaskMessageListener.java:125)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.BaseMessageListener.receive(BaseMessageListener.java:26)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.InvokerMessageListener.receive(InvokerMessageListener.java:74)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.ParallelDestination$1.run(ParallelDestination.java:52)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask._runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:756)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:667)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.NoSuchGroupException: No Group exists with the primary key 34952
	at com.liferay.portal.service.persistence.impl.GroupPersistenceImpl.findByPrimaryKey(GroupPersistenceImpl.java:11965)
	at com.liferay.portal.service.persistence.impl.GroupPersistenceImpl.findByPrimaryKey(GroupPersistenceImpl.java:11981)
	at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.GroupLocalServiceImpl.getGroup(GroupLocalServiceImpl.java:1500)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor494.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:163)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:54)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:58)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:137)
	at com.liferay.portal.cache.thread.local.ThreadLocalCacheAdvice.invoke(ThreadLocalCacheAdvice.java:67)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:137)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ChainableMethodAdvice.invoke(ChainableMethodAdvice.java:56)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:137)
	at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanAopProxy.invoke(ServiceBeanAopProxy.java:169)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy91.getGroup(Unknown Source)
	at com.liferay.journal.content.web.internal.exportimport.portlet.preferences.processor.JournalContentExportImportPortletPreferencesProcessor.processImportPortletPreferences(JournalContentExportImportPortletPreferencesProcessor.java:281)
	... 34 more

Note - This exception cannot be seen on Master due to LPS-77336. The exception is still thrown however so the changes should be made there as well. The exception was taken from 7.0.x.