Bug 1019754

Summary: Custom form layout not working - lots of NullPointerExceptions when using it
Product: [Retired] JBoss BPMS Platform 6 Reporter: Jan Hrcek <jhrcek>
Component: Form ModelerAssignee: Neus Miras <nmirasch>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Jan Hrcek <jhrcek>
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Priority: high    
Version: 6.0.0CC: pzapataf, rrajasek, vigoyal
Target Milestone: ER5Keywords: TestBlocker
Target Release: 6.0.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
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Summary: Trying to use a custom form for a authoring a project results in multiple points of failure. The custom form is not loaded and there are several errors in the log files. Further, trying to generate a template or save it, based on this custom form default results in more errors. Cause: Consequence: Fix: Result:
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Last Closed: 2014-08-06 20:11:45 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jan Hrcek 2013-10-16 11:02:50 UTC 
Created attachment 812864 [details]
Steps to reproduce - video

Description of problem:
When you select custom form layout > Edit in form modeler, the layout is not loaded in the HTML editor - instead NullPointerExceptions appear in server.log (attached). When generating template based on default layout there are again NPEs. NPEs are also thrown when you try to save the layout.

See video and server.log attached.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
BPMS 6.0.0 ER4 deployed on EAP 6.1 (can be downloaded here: http://dev138.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com/candidate/bpms-6.0.0-ER4/)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Authoring > project authoring
2. In project explorer select: Demo > Jbpm-playground > Evaluation
3. Open form: evaluation-taskform
4. In form modeler choose Form Properties, click Custom form layout > Edit (first batch of NPEs in the server log)
5. Click Generate template based on default > OK (2nd batch of NPEs)
6. Click save button at the bottom (3rd batch of NPEs)

Actual results:
described in steps to reproduce

Expected results:
It should open the form layout markup and it should be possible to edit it.
Comment 1 Jan Hrcek 2013-10-16 11:03:29 UTC 
Created attachment 812865 [details]
server.log with exceptions
Comment 3 Neus Miras 2013-10-16 14:55:04 UTC 
It was fixed with this commits, on the 1st October, after the ER4 was made. 

Master
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpm-form-modeler/commit/e0c13b27505eac0f19dae043d37422e36ad42b73

6.0.x
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpm-form-modeler/commit/e9a865260e7f36a3243c5b38346c356c6bfc851c
Comment 4 Jan Hrcek 2013-12-02 08:09:09 UTC 
Ok, now the Custom form layout editor works correctly - no more NPEs when opening editor or when generating forms in it. Verified with BPMS 6.0.0 ER5