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

[bart vandendriessche]

I added some info regarding this in the Wiki.

bart vandendriessche wrote:
> 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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