[opencms-dev] NullPointerException when saving. Problemwithdefault body and locales.

[bart vandendriessche]

Hmm, that would seem like an odd decision to make though. As it stands, 
allowing for unstructured content adds choice, taking away this choice 
wouldn't seem like a good  move from a publicity point of view. That 
aside, I don't think I'd agree with it from a technical point of view 
either.
I think for now I'll just assume that it's an oversight that not too 
many people are having problems with, and the Alkacon guys are just 
prioritizing changes :)

Olli Aro wrote:
> Yes it does and especially because structured content, e.g. news, seems to
> work. Maybe the standard content is no longer actively developed and the
> long term view is that everything will be structured content...
>
> Olli 
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of bart vandendriessche
> Sent: 28 November 2006 11:01
> To: The OpenCms mailing list
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] NullPointerException when saving.
> Problemwithdefault body and locales.
>
> Hey Olli and Jonathan,
>
> thanks for your suggestions, I did add a custom default body similar to 
> the one below and it works properly this way. It does seem like a flaw 
> that the controlcode has to be edited upon adding a new locale though.
>
> regards,
> Bart
>
> Jonathan Woods wrote:
>   
>> Bart -
>>
>> The thing you 'copy body from': can't that be a snippet of XML which
>> includes empty bodies for all the languages you want?  Then you'd start
>>     
> off
>   
>> with all the necessary body elements defined.  In other words:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>
>> <pages xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>
>>     
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.opencms.org/dtd/6.0/xmlpage.xsd">
>   
>>   <page language="en">
>>     <element name="body">
>>       <links/>
>>       <content><![CDATA[]]></content>
>>     </element>
>>   </page>
>>   <page language="de">
>>     <element name="body">
>>       <links/>
>>       <content><![CDATA[]]></content>
>>     </element>
>>   </page></pages> 
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
>> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of bart vandendriessche
>> Sent: 28 November 2006 09:52
>> To: The OpenCms mailing list
>> Subject: [opencms-dev] NullPointerException when saving. Problem
>>     
> withdefault
>   
>> body and locales.
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I am working on a multilingual site which has one root folder per locale,
>>     
> so
>   
>> e.g.:
>> en
>> de
>> fr
>>
>> The use case that we are promoting for content that is available in
>>     
> multiple
>   
>> languages, is to create the page in one language, for example in the en
>> folder, and then when the german content is to be added, create a sibling
>>     
> in
>   
>> the de folder that links back to the file in the en folder.
>>
>> This site uses a custom template, so for now, we are always assigning the
>> default body as the "Copy body from" property. Now, creating the file in
>>     
> the
>   
>> en folder and editing its english content works fine. 
>> However, when I switch the language inside the FCKeditor, there will be no
>> *body element available. I am able to enter content for my newly selected
>> language, but when I try to save, a NullPointerException is thrown.
>> Currently, I have discovered a work around where I can:
>> a) create the page in English
>> b) add english content
>> c) switch to german language
>> d) add german content
>> e) switch back to english language
>> f) save
>>
>> After doing this, the *body element will be available to the german
>> language. However, this workaround is cumbersome for our customers.
>> It might be of interest that I am currently using OpenCms 6.2.1, so maybe
>> this is fixed in a later version. If not, any insight or tips will be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bart
>>
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