topic Getting NPE while retrieving bytearray value in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-npe-while-retrieving-bytearray-value/m-p/158335#M112448 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>This exception is a show stopper for me at the moment. Need to fix this asap, i am using activiti 5.10 and not possible to upgrade it at the moment. I looked around and found that it was fixed in&nbsp; version 5.0. Maybe something else is causing it. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Here is my stack trace :</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.variable.ByteArrayType.getValue(ByteArrayType.java:37)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.variable.SerializableType.getValue(SerializableType.java:44)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.VariableInstanceEntity.getValue(VariableInstanceEntity.java:158)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.VariableScopeImpl.getVariable(VariableScopeImpl.java:93)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.VariableScopeImpl.getVariable(VariableScopeImpl.java:97)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.el.VariableScopeElResolver.getValue(VariableScopeElResolver.java:65)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:231)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.juel.AstIdentifier.eval(AstIdentifier.java:81)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.juel.AstParameters.eval(AstParameters.java:34)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.juel.AstMethod.invoke(AstMethod.java:88)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.juel.AstMethod.eval(AstMethod.java:75)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.juel.AstEval.eval(AstEval.java:50)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.juel.AstNode.getValue(AstNode.java:26)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.juel.TreeValueExpression.getValue(TreeValueExpression.java:114)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.delegate.ExpressionGetInvocation.invoke(ExpressionGetInvocation.java:33)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.delegate.DelegateInvocation.proceed(DelegateInvocation.java:37)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.activiti.engine.impl.delegate.DefaultDelegateInterceptor.handleInvocation(DefaultDelegateInterceptor.java:25)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can get byteArray value using SQL query ao it is definitely not null.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Also it is not happening all the time. Most of the time it appears after production build, means for workflows that are in process while we redeploy war on production machine workflow stops working.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Please suggest me some solution asap.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in Advance.</SPAN><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Sun, 08 Sep 2013 08:20:10 GMT sukhveer 2013-09-08T08:20:10Z Getting NPE while retrieving bytearray value https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-npe-while-retrieving-bytearray-value/m-p/158335#M112448 Hi,This exception is a show stopper for me at the moment. Need to fix this asap, i am using activiti 5.10 and not possible to upgrade it at the moment. I looked around and found that it was fixed in&nbsp; version 5.0. Maybe something else is causing it. Here is my stack trace :Caused by: java.lang.NullPo Sun, 08 Sep 2013 08:20:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-npe-while-retrieving-bytearray-value/m-p/158335#M112448 sukhveer 2013-09-08T08:20:10Z Re: Getting NPE while retrieving bytearray value https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-npe-while-retrieving-bytearray-value/m-p/158336#M112449 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Mentioning ASAP doesn't really help. We don't work with bug fixes on already released versions and certainly not with an old version as 5.10.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:10:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-npe-while-retrieving-bytearray-value/m-p/158336#M112449 trademak 2013-09-13T09:10:00Z