Exporting and Importing a rule results with java.lang.NullPointerException in RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle
Originally Published: 2021-04-29
Last Modified: 2023-12-01
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Product/Service Type: All
RSA Version/Condition: 7.2.1, 7.5.0
Issue
In environment A
- Create a rule, remediation review, and ruleset
- Assign the remediation review to the rule
- Export the rule, remediation review, and ruleset
In environment B
----------------
- Import the ruleset
- Import the remediation review
- Import rule
Confirm in UI that it was imported successfully.
NOTE: The issue is seen only when each of the objects is imported individually.
Export the rule from environment B. You will see the export failing with a null pointer exception.
Below error seen in aveksaServer.log :
03/30/2021 07:01:22.101 ERROR (default task-15) [com.aveksa.server.export.ExportImportConverter] marshal
com.aveksa.server.runtime.ServerException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.aveksa.server.export.proxy.ExportedRule.deNormalize(ExportedRule.java:127)
at com.aveksa.server.export.proxy.ProxyObject.marshall(ProxyObject.java:62)
at com.aveksa.server.export.ExportImportConverter.marshal(ExportImportConverter.java:74)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.convert(TreeMarshaller.java:70)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.convertAnother(TreeMarshaller.java:58)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.convertAnother(TreeMarshaller.java:43)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.start(TreeMarshaller.java:82)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.marshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:37)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.marshal(XStream.java:1319)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream$3.writeToStream(XStream.java:2113)
at
Cause
Resolution
- RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle 7.2.1 P05
- RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle 7.5.0 P01
Workaround
- Go to the Rules -> Definitions -> Click on imported Rule ->Edit..
- Without doing any updates to the rule, click OK.
- After this step, you can export the rule.
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