Failed to create an external job

[Harathi]

Hello,

I wish to create an external job on my Jenkins, but it is failing giving null object exception?

Does anyone have any clue to solve this?

Error

null object

net.sf.json.JSONException: null object
	at net.sf.json.JSONObject.verifyIsNull(JSONObject.java:2688)
	at net.sf.json.JSONObject.getBoolean(JSONObject.java:1918)
	at hudson.model.Job.checkForEmptyParameters(Job.java:1550)
	at hudson.model.Job.doConfigSubmit(Job.java:1235)
	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 org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$InstanceFunction.invoke(Function.java:324)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.interceptor.RequirePOST$Processor.invoke(RequirePOST.java:52)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.PreInvokeInterceptedFunction.invoke(PreInvokeInterceptedFunction.java:26)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:167)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:100)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:124)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:233)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1669)
	at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:135)
	at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:126)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
	at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:80)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:76)
	at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
	at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:82)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:585)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:553)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:223)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544)
	at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[Logan MAUZAIZE]

Looking at the message, it seems you lack an item into your JSON configuration. I'm not an expert but others may guess missing item(s) if you provide the payload !

[Harathi]

Thanks Logan. The above mentioned "Null object error", is the complete error message that I am getting while creating external job on Jenkins. I am not so sure about fixing JSON issue. Thanks again for looking into this!