Unable to Create More than One User When Importing With JellyScript

[Chris Farver]

I'm currently attempting to import issues into JIRA by using Jelly. I have a test script that I've been trying to run, but continually get stopped with the error message:

Exception: org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: null:9:0: java.lang.NullPointerException

By looking at where the import ends, I can tell that it always hits the error after attempting to create the second new user.

It might not be ideal, but in my script I'm attempting to import comments from old users that won't be included in JIRA, but because Jelly doesn't allow inactive users to import comments, I'm attempting to create a user before every comment, and then deleting them right after. I saw this working a few days ago, so I don't know why the script is contiually failing.

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.NewUserContextAccessorImpl.setNewUserContext(NewUserContextAccessorImpl.java:78)at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.NewUserContextAccessorImpl.setNewUserContext(NewUserContextAccessorImpl.java:73)at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.NewUserContextAccessorImpl.setNewUser(NewUserContextAccessorImpl.java:35)at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.NewUserContextAccessorImpl.loadPreviousNewUser(NewUserContextAccessorImpl.java:50)at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.tag.admin.CreateUser.loadPreviousNewUser(CreateUser.java:65)at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.tag.admin.CreateUser.endTagExecution(CreateUser.java:40)at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.ActionTagSupport.doTag(ActionTagSupport.java:136)at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:247)at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTag.doTag(StaticTag.java:65)at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTagScript.run(StaticTagScript.java:102)at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.util.JellyRunner.doExecute(JellyRunner.java:96)at

etc..

(If it makes a difference, I can post the full log)

[Betsy Walker]

My bet would be that some of one of your users has a name -- like O'Brien -- that contains a special character. In JELLY, you must escape these characters: ampersand, apostrophe/single quote, double quote, less than symbol and greater than symbol.

See the Writing A Jelly Script section of this page: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Jelly+Tags

[Chris Farver]

Unfortunately that isn't it. I've run tests on it a few times, and haven't used a name with a special character yet.

[Jo-Anne MacLeod]

As a test, can you pull the line that creates that second user and see if the gets any further. It's possible that there may be something different about that one user that is causing the problem. If it carries on then you know that it is that one line, if it gets stuck on the next line then you know that it is something more general in your script.

[Chris Farver]

I've done similar tests already, in which I've moved the lines around and it always fails on the second added user.

I am able to create and delete the same user multiple times over again, but whenever I attempt to create a 2nd user, it fails.