After upgrading Dspace to 5.5 - Edit news error - The file null is not a valid news file

[Tom Avino]

When I click Edit in the News Editor, I get the message below.

2016-06-04 08:56:53,895 WARN  org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.InternalErrorServlet @ :session_id=8FBB62D7708C724747DE70FB603B4356:internal_error:-- URL Was: https://ldr-d.larc.nasa.gov/dspace-admin/news-edit

-- Method: POST

-- Parameters were:

-- submit_edit: "Edit"

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The file null is not a valid news file

at org.dspace.core.NewsManager.readNewsFile(NewsManager.java:47)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.admin.NewsEditServlet.doDSPost(NewsEditServlet.java:55)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.processRequest(DSpaceServlet.java:115)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.doPost(DSpaceServlet.java:73)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:650)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)

at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)

at org.dspace.app.webui.filter.AdminOnlyFilter.doFilter(AdminOnlyFilter.java:71)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)

at org.dspace.utils.servlet.DSpaceWebappServletFilter.doFilter(DSpaceWebappServletFilter.java:78)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122)

at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:505)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:957)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:423)

at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:190)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:620)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

2016-06-04 08:56:53,896 WARN  org.dspace.app.webui.util.UIUtil @ Unable to send email alert

java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.queryTable(DatabaseManager.java:230)

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObject$MetadataCache.retrieveMetadata(DSpaceObject.java:1330)

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObject$MetadataCache.get(DSpaceObject.java:1265)

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObject.getMetadata(DSpaceObject.java:676)

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObject.getMetadata(DSpaceObject.java:585)

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObject.getMetadataFirstValue(DSpaceObject.java:653)

at org.dspace.eperson.EPerson.getFirstName(EPerson.java:772)

at org.dspace.eperson.EPerson.getFullName(EPerson.java:748)

at org.dspace.app.webui.util.UIUtil.sendAlert(UIUtil.java:419)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.InternalErrorServlet.doGet(InternalErrorServlet.java:54)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.InternalErrorServlet.doPost(InternalErrorServlet.java:62)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:650)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:748)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:488)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:411)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:338)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.custom(StandardHostValve.java:476)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.throwable(StandardHostValve.java:420)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:208)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:957)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:423)

at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:190)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:620)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[Luiz dos Santos]

Hi Tom,

   I got this bug, I fixed and I submitted a pull request: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1430, if you don't want to wait them to approve the pull request, you can check my fix in the pull request. Please, let me know if you need help.

Best

Luiz 

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[Tom Avino]

Thanks for replying to this.  I have made the changes, and am getting ready to rebuild my Dspace instance.  If I have any problems, I will let you know.

Tom