Article - CS281881
Windchill PDMLink: Office worker fails to publish WTDocument with error "java.lang.NullPointerException"
Modified: 19-Dec-2023
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to 13.0
- Windchill ProjectLink 11.0 to 13.0
- Windchill MPMLink 11.0 to 13.0
- Windchill PDM Essentials 11.0 to 12.0
Description
- Office worker fails to publish WTDocument with error java.lang.NullPointerException in WVS Job Monitor log
- Error is thrown while adding coversheet
- Error reported in Background Methodserver log:
ERROR [PublisherQueue1.PollingThread] wt.wvs.loader.EDRLoader Administrator - EDRLoader - Unexpected error
wt.util.WTException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Nested exception is: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor448.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.ptc.wvs.server.util.LiveCycleUtil.processAssemblerDelegate(LiveCycleUtil.java:539)
at com.ptc.wvs.server.loader.EDRLoader.start(EDRLoader.java:1172)
at com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.PublishHelper.storeRepresentation(PublishHelper.java:525)
...
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at ext.xxxx.coversheet.CustomApproveGenerator.extractPersistableInfo(CustomApproveGenerator.java:328)
at com.ptc.coversheet.Generator.getPersistableInfo(Generator.java:153)
at ext.xxxx.coversheet.LiveCycleDelegate.getLiveCycleInvocationParams(LiveCycleDelegate.java:197)
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