Adding multiple categories on Media Upload screen leads to an error

[Afraaz Ali]

I've come across an issue where uploading a new file with multiple categories, seems to throw an error. FWIW, I've done the same on the demo, and I've gotten the same error. Below are the steps to reproduce.

1. Add the categories form field to the multipleupload view.
2. Upload a file
3. Input a title
4. Select multiple categories from the category field
5. Click upload button

Expected Result

The file is uploaded and is assigned to the categories

Actual Result

The error "error while uploading file" is shown instead.

From catalina.out:

23-Aug-2018 19:54:18.922 INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-19] org.entermediadb.asset.upload.UploadRequest.saveFileAs Saved /WEB-INF/temp/uploading/admin/tmp1535054058921/About Stacks.pdf

23-Aug-2018 19:54:18.930 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-19] org.openedit.servlet.BaseOpenEditEngine.beginRender Problem redering page

 org.openedit.OpenEditException: /WEB-INF/base/emfrontend/components/upload/types/html5/finish.xconf#AssetEditModule.createAssetFromUploads null

at org.openedit.ModuleManager.execMethod(ModuleManager.java:119)

at org.openedit.ModuleManager.executePageAction(ModuleManager.java:61)

at org.openedit.ModuleManager.executePathActions(ModuleManager.java:184)

at org.openedit.servlet.BaseOpenEditEngine.executePathActions(BaseOpenEditEngine.java:244)

at org.openedit.servlet.BaseOpenEditEngine.beginRender(BaseOpenEditEngine.java:160)

at org.openedit.servlet.BaseOpenEditEngine.render(BaseOpenEditEngine.java:125)

at org.openedit.servlet.OpenEditFilter.doFilter(OpenEditFilter.java:79)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)

at com.openedit.servlet.gzip.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:33)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:199)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)

at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:491)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:668)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:408)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:764)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1388)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)

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

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.entermediadb.asset.AssetUtilities.createSourcePath(AssetUtilities.java:371)

at org.entermediadb.asset.modules.AssetEditModule.savePages(AssetEditModule.java:1001)

at org.entermediadb.asset.modules.AssetEditModule.createAssetsFromPages(AssetEditModule.java:891)

at org.entermediadb.asset.modules.AssetEditModule.createAssetFromUploads(AssetEditModule.java:734)

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.openedit.ModuleManager.execMethod(ModuleManager.java:107)

... 28 more

23-Aug-2018 19:54:18.942 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-19] org.openedit.error.HtmlErrorHandler.handleError org.openedit.OpenEditException: /WEB-INF/base/emfrontend/components/upload/types/html5/finish.xconf#AssetEditModule.createAssetFromUploads null

[Cristobal Mejia]

This is working in our current dev branch (em9dev_entermedia-server-9.2302) do you know what version you are getting this error?

[Afraaz Ali]

I'm using em9dev_entermedia-server-9.2304. I've added the category field to the multi upload view and I'm seeing the same error. I'm able to attach multiple categories AFTER the asset is saved, just not at the media upload screen.

[Afraaz Ali]

http://em9dev.entermediadb.org/emshare/index.html - I've setup the demo environment with two categories and added the category field on the Upload Media screen. You can try uploading a file and trying to apply two categories to it. You'll see the error.

[Afraaz Ali]

I can confirm this is now working on em9dev_entermedia-server-9.2308