Jira 5.0.7 log error ${issue.id} is not a valid reference?

[jayasingh]

Hi All,

we have migrated jira from 4.4.4 to 5.0.7. when we click on the issue navigator tab we are getting the below error in log.

/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa [velocity] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = getEncodedBodyFromContent [line 1,column 59] : ${issue.id} is not a valid reference.

/secure/VersionBoard.jspa [velocity] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = getEncodedBodyFromContent [line 1,column 59] : ${issue.id} is not a valid reference

but this was not affecting any functionality in jira. How to resolve this error.

Kindly suggest.

Thanks,

Jayasingh

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

You have some plugin (mostly a custom field) that references ${issue.id} in the velocity templates or maybe in issue operations. The fix will be to change the reference to $!{issue.id}.

You will have to find the appropriate plugin though.

[jayasingh]

Hi Jobin,

Thanks for your reply.

${issue.id} problem got resolved by changing the version of copy-to-subtask-plugin-3.0.0 to 3.1.1. But now we are getting the below error now

2013-01-28 13:33:23,663 http-8088-4 ERROR jirasupport 813x527x1 179l6ia 10.10.194.225 /secure/QuickCreateIssue.jspa [jira.cot.functions.CreateSubIssueFunction] Could not create sub-task
com.atlassian.jira.exception.CreateException: Error occurred while creating issue through workflow:
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:472)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:402)

kindly suggest

jaysingh

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Um, I'm not sure that the copy-to-subtask plugin is the problem here. Your original problem was a display problem on issues. The copy-to-subtask plugin is procedural.

They could well be intertwined though. I suspect that your issue with the display has been fixed because the nwere version of copy-to-subtask plugin is not functioning at all, and hence it's not creating data that your display is struggling with. In other words, it sounds like a compound problem.

I don't know which would be easier to fix first, but I'd have a go at the sub-task one. Your error log isn't detailed enough though - we can see the error happening, but you need to find the error that's thrown by the sub-task plugin, rather than Jira (the classes in your posted log are part of the core and are just falling over because the sub-task is failing somewhere)

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

@Nic the fiurst one was related to Copy to subtask. It was using issue.id in a web-item and JIRA for some reason gets this referneece as null in the issue navigator, probably while rendering issue actions. I don't understand why it would be null because issue can never be null there but the issue goes away after using $!{issue.id} ;)

Regarding the new error, it seems to be coming from a different plugin. Looking at the package, seems similar to https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/129113/issues-facing-in-jira-logs-need-to-reslove-on-high-priority