topic createMissingPeople override NullPointerException in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/createmissingpeople-override-nullpointerexception/m-p/100505#M69640 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Running Alfresco Community 2.1.&nbsp; If I place the following config information in my custom-authentication-services-context.xml ,&nbsp; I get a Java error:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;bean id="personService" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="createMissingPeople"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;${server.transaction.allow-writes}&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&lt;/bean&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>In the above case I am simply trying to set it to the same value as in the default configuration.&nbsp; My end goal is to set this value to false but I found it odd that even when I am not trying to change the config with the override it still gets a Java error.&nbsp; It happens when I set the value to false as well.&nbsp; Here is the error:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>15:57:22,588 INFO&nbsp; [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Community Network): Current version 2.1.0 (482) schema 64 - Installed version 2.1.0 (482) schema 64<BR />15:57:24,237 ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed<BR />java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl.getPersonOrNull(PersonServiceImpl.java:221)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl.getPerson(PersonServiceImpl.java:196)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)<BR /><BR />–snip–<BR /><BR />15:57:24,245 ERROR [[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener<BR />java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl.getPersonOrNull(PersonServiceImpl.java:221)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl.getPerson(PersonServiceImpl.java:196)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)<BR /><BR />–snip–<BR /><BR />15:57:24,251 ERROR [[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener<BR />java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl.getPersonOrNull(PersonServiceImpl.java:221)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl.getPerson(PersonServiceImpl.java:196)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)<BR /><BR />–snip–<BR /><BR />Jul 25, 2007 3:57:24 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start<BR />SEVERE: Error listenerStart<BR />Jul 25, 2007 3:57:24 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start<BR />SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors<BR />–snip–<BR /><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for your assistance.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>– Dannie</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:17:45 GMT danniemstanley 2007-07-25T20:17:45Z createMissingPeople override NullPointerException https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/createmissingpeople-override-nullpointerexception/m-p/100505#M69640 Running Alfresco Community 2.1.&nbsp; If I place the following config information in my custom-authentication-services-context.xml ,&nbsp; I get a Java error:&lt;bean id="personService" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.person.PersonServiceImpl"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="createMissingPeople"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;val Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:17:45 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/createmissingpeople-override-nullpointerexception/m-p/100505#M69640 danniemstanley 2007-07-25T20:17:45Z Re: createMissingPeople override NullPointerException https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/createmissingpeople-override-nullpointerexception/m-p/100506#M69641 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You are redefining the bean - you need to provide all properties - not just the ones you want to change.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:49:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/createmissingpeople-override-nullpointerexception/m-p/100506#M69641 andy 2007-07-26T07:49:20Z Re: createMissingPeople override NullPointerException https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/createmissingpeople-override-nullpointerexception/m-p/100507#M69642 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks Andy, that worked great!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:27:21 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/createmissingpeople-override-nullpointerexception/m-p/100507#M69642 danniemstanley 2007-07-26T12:27:21Z