Fixes are available
APAR status
Closed as program error.
Error description
NullPointerException when publishing rules to RuleDocs where one decision table column header has no action defined (see the below exceptions). Similar root cause exception when trying to edit the rule doc directly from the explorer. ---------- Publish to Rules to RuleDocs ---------- Unexpected error Decision Center has encountered an unexpected error. The internal error message is: java.lang.NullPointerException Contact your administrator for further details. Hide Stack << java.lang.NullPointerException at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.WorksheetHandler.addRow( WorksheetHandler.java:493) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.WorksheetHandler. writeWorksheetDoc(WorksheetHandler.java:164) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.WorksheetHandler.save( WorksheetHandler.java:100) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.RSOExcelDataStore.save( RSOExcelDataStore.java:511) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.OfficeDocumentStore. save(OfficeDocumentStore.java:158) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.RSODataProvider. commitTransaction(RSODataProvider.java:102) at ilog.rules.model.dataaccess.RuleModelDataAccess.saveData( RuleModelDataAccess.java:349) at ilog.rules.synchronization.operations.PublishOperation. run(PublishOperation.java:260) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.synchronization.rso. RTSRSOSubscriber.publishArtifacts(RTSRSOSubscriber.java:380) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.gwt.rsosync.services. PublishOperationHandler.run(PublishOperationHandler.java:278) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.gwt.rsosync.services. RSOServiceImpl.doSyncOperation(RSOServiceImpl.java:415) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:76) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:607) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC. invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:562) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet. processCall(RemoteServiceServlet.java:188) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet. processPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:224) at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc. AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.doPost( AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.java:62) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java: 595) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java: 668) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service( ServletWrapper.java:1225) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper. handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:775) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper. handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:457) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl. handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:178) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain. invokeTarget(WebAppFilterChain.java:136) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter( WebAppFilterChain.java:97) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.security. SecurityCheckPointFilter.doFilter(SecurityCheckPointFilter.java: 112) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper. doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:195) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter( WebAppFilterChain.java:91) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.servlets.filter. IlrRemoteSessionFilter.doFilterInternal(IlrRemoteSessionFilter. java:88) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.servlets.filter. IlrRemoteSessionFilter.doFilter(IlrRemoteSessionFilter.java:66) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.servlets.filter. IlrSessionFilter.access$001(IlrSessionFilter.java:31) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.servlets.filter. IlrSessionFilter$1.doFilter(IlrSessionFilter.java:61) at org.springframework.web.filter.RequestContextFilter. doFilterInternal(RequestContextFilter.java:99) at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter. doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.servlets.filter. IlrSessionFilter.doFilter(IlrSessionFilter.java:59) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper. doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:195) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter( WebAppFilterChain.java:91) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager. doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:928) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager. invokeFilters(WebAppFilterManager.java:1025) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.CacheServletWrapper. handleRequest(CacheServletWrapper.java:87) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest( WebContainer.java:908) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest( WSWebContainer.java:1662) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready( WCChannelLink.java:195) at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink. handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:459) at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink. handleNewRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:526) at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink. processRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:312) at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpICLReadCallback. complete(HttpICLReadCallback.java:87) at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener. futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165) at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback( AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217) at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions( AsyncChannelFuture.java:161) at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java: 138) at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler. java:204) at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop( ResultHandler.java:775) at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java: 905) at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java: 1815) ---------------------------------------- ---------- Edit in Explorer ---------- Decision Center has encountered an unexpected error. The internal error message is: Could not retrieve value of component with path : {Component- Path : [Class: javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot,ViewId: /explore/details.jsp][Class: javax.faces.component.html. HtmlForm,Id: paneForm][Class: javax.faces.component.html. HtmlPanelGroup,Id: _idJsp305][Class: javax.faces.component.html. HtmlOutputLink,Id: editInRSO_id]} Contact your administrator for further details. Hide Stack << javax.faces.FacesException: Could not retrieve value of component with path : {Component-Path : [Class: javax.faces. component.UIViewRoot,ViewId: /explore/details.jsp][Class: javax. faces.component.html.HtmlForm,Id: paneForm][Class: javax.faces. component.html.HtmlPanelGroup,Id: _idJsp305][Class: javax.faces. component.html.HtmlOutputLink,Id: editInRSO_id]} at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.RendererUtils. getStringValue(RendererUtils.java:227) at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.html. HtmlLinkRendererBase.renderOutputLinkStart(HtmlLinkRendererBase. java:394) at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.html. HtmlLinkRendererBase.encodeBegin(HtmlLinkRendererBase.java:94) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeBegin( UIComponentBase.java:515) at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.RendererUtils. renderChild(RendererUtils.java:412) at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.RendererUtils. renderChildren(RendererUtils.java:400) at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.html. HtmlGroupRendererBase.encodeEnd(HtmlGroupRendererBase.java:78) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd( UIComponentBase.java:539) at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.encodeEnd( UIComponentTag.java:498) at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.doEndTag(UIComponentTag. java:366) at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.taglib. UIComponentBodyTagBase.doEndTag(UIComponentBodyTagBase.java:57) at com.ibm._jsp._details._jspx_meth_h_panelGroup_47(_details. java:16440) at com.ibm._jsp._details._jspService(_details.java:924) at com.ibm.ws.jsp.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase. java:99) [....] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.WorksheetHandler.addRow( WorksheetHandler.java:493) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.WorksheetHandler. writeWorksheetDoc(WorksheetHandler.java:164) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.WorksheetHandler.save( WorksheetHandler.java:100) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.RSOExcelDataStore.save( RSOExcelDataStore.java:511) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.openxml.OfficeDocumentStore. save(OfficeDocumentStore.java:158) at ilog.rules.dataaccess.rso.RSODataProvider. commitTransaction(RSODataProvider.java:102) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.rso.standalone. RSODocumentWriter.generateDocument(RSODocumentWriter.java:168) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.rso.standalone. RSOEditingUtilities.generateRuleDocContent(RSOEditingUtilities. java:84) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.rso.standalone. RSOEditingUtilities.getRuleDocURL(RSOEditingUtilities.java:56) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.rso.standalone. RSOEditingUtilities.getRuleDocURL(RSOEditingUtilities.java:45) at ilog.rules.teamserver.web.beans.RSOEditingBean. getRuleDocURL(RSOEditingBean.java:86) ... 91 more ----------------------------------------
Local fix
Define any actionin the column header
Problem summary
The code transforming the decision table into a worksheet for RSO does not handle properly an column with not condition and an exception is thrown.
Problem conclusion
The code is fixed
Temporary fix
Comments
APAR Information
APAR number
RS01774
Reported component name
WS DECISION CTR
Reported component ID
5725B6900
Reported release
851
Status
CLOSED PER
PE
NoPE
HIPER
NoHIPER
Special Attention
NoSpecatt
Submitted date
2014-10-09
Closed date
2014-10-10
Last modified date
2014-10-10
APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:
APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:
Modules/Macros
999
Fix information
Fixed component name
WS DECISION CTR
Fixed component ID
5725B6900
Applicable component levels
R851 PSY
UP
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Document Information
Modified date:
08 January 2022