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Bug 1179765

Summary: Null pointer exception on non-modifying update of directory in configuration management
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5 Reporter: Matej Kollar <mkollar>
Component: WebUIAssignee: Jan Dobes <jdobes>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Lukáš Hellebrandt <lhellebr>
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Description Matej Kollar 2015-01-07 14:11:39 UTC 
Description of problem:

When one presses "Update Configuration File", on page

  /rhn/configuration/file/FileDetails.do?cfid=1

(Configuration -> Configuration files -> some directory)
while looking at directory (not file) and have not changed anything,
he/she gets Null pointer exception.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: always/deterministic

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create new config channel, in channel create $DIRECTORY
2. navigate to Configuration -> Configuration files -> $DIRECTORY
3. press "Update Configuration File"

Actual results:
Null pointer exception

Expected results:
Not much (well, nothing has changed...)

Additional info:
It works when for example permissions are changed.
Comment 1 Jan Dobes 2015-01-22 16:10:54 UTC 
*** Bug 1183661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jan Dobes 2015-01-23 13:16:23 UTC 
fixed in spacewalk master:

7beded1c2d7d1248349186b29872d8a100d4b0b3
Comment 3 Jan Dobes 2015-01-23 13:21:10 UTC 
possible improvement:

implement some check if binary file changed, currently new revision is created every time user clicks on "Update Configuration File" button
Comment 6 Lukáš Hellebrandt 2017-04-21 10:47:31 UTC 
Verified with spacewalk-java-2.5.14-71

Used reproducer from OP. The exception is not thrown, nothing happens at all, which is correct. When modifying some info, it gets changed correctly.