Crucible Review is not Displayed after Upgrading and Throws NullPointerException in Log

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*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Symptoms

After upgrading to 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 or 2.3.3 some reviews are no longer present in the UI.

2010-06-22 02:02:58,736 ERROR [pool-2-thread-1] fisheye.app DefaultReviewItemIndexer$3-run - Error indexing review java.lang.NullPointerException: value cannot be null at org.apache.lucene.document.Field.<init>(Field.java:330) at org.apache.lucene.document.Field.<init>(Field.java:305) at org.apache.lucene.document.Field.<init>(Field.java:284) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer.indexReview(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:273) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer.access$100(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:64) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer$IndexOperationIterator.doNext(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:161) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer$2.perform(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:254) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer$2.perform(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:250) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer.indexInBatches(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:250) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer.access$600(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:64) at com.atlassian.crucible.activity.lucene.DefaultReviewItemIndexer$3.run(DefaultReviewItemIndexer.java:470)

Cause

This is caused by a bug in Crucible - FE-3368 - Lucene indexer fails on null values. The bug will be fixed for Crucible 2.3.4.

Resolution

Contact Atlassian support for a development build in the interim until Crucible 2.3.4 is released.

Updated on May 22, 2025

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