[opencms-dev] Import workplace fails: many NullPointerExceptions

[Graham Leggett]

Graham Leggett wrote:

> While trying to import a workplace during setup of opencms v6 alpha 3 
> against a Postgres database, the following NullPointerExceptions are 
> thrown. Opencms has been unpacked into a tomcat v5.0.30 container on 
> Sun's JDK v1.4.2.

On a hunch, I decided to try and reinstall everything from scratch, but 
keeping the same database tables.

I went through the install procedures, told it not to create either 
tables or users, ignored the warning about no database being created 
(knowing that one already existed), and tried the workspace import 
procedure again.

This time the import procedure worked.

It seems that it is possible to pass the Postgres database creation step 
without a valid database config being present, which triggers unhandled 
exceptions in the downstream code.

The primary use case (where the user enters the exact correct paramaters 
the first time they use the software) seems to work, but none of the 
alternate use cases (where the user entered something incorrectly, and 
had to press "back" to get it corrected) are supported.

Regards,
Graham
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