Hi,
Environment: SAP BI 4.1 SP05 Patch 4
Windows OS of BO Server: Windows 2012
We are using Java SDK in our application UI to refresh a webi report, set prompts and save the report as PDF or Excel. We have copied all the jars from the BI 4.1 server to our app server.
Given below is the code snippet where we are getting the error :-
1. Prompts prompts = document.getPrompts();
2.
3. if(prompts != null && prompts.getCount()>0){
4. String[] ls_parmValue = (String[])lmap_xiPromptValues.get(ls_promName);
5. prompt.enterValues(ls_parmValue);
6. }
7. document.setPrompts();
We are getting error at line #7.
Prompt name: FromDate
Prompt Value: 05/07/2015
Error text:
- java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sap.sl.common.impl.FieldImpl.setDateTime(FieldImpl.java:246)
at com.businessobjects.rebean.wi.internal.dp.prompt.FormatNumberHelper.formatStringToField(FormatNumberHelper.java:140)
at com.businessobjects.rebean.wi.internal.dp.prompt.WIPrompt.prepareAnswers(WIPrompt.java:157)
at com.businessobjects.rebean.wi.internal.dp.prompt.WIPrompts.provideAnswers(WIPrompts.java:99)
at com.businessobjects.rebean.wi.internal.WIDocumentInstance.setPrompts(WIDocumentInstance.java:626)
at com.jpm.aqueduct.reports.reportViewServlet.doProcess(reportViewServlet.java:204)
at com.jpm.aqueduct.reports.reportViewServlet.doGet(reportViewServlet.java:46)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:749)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:487)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:412)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:339)
at com.jpm.aqueduct.reports.reportViewServlet.doProcess(reportViewServlet.java:313)
at com.jpm.aqueduct.reports.reportViewServlet.doGet(reportViewServlet.java:46)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:749)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:487)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:412)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:339)
at com.jpm.aqueduct.reports.reportViewServlet.doProcess(reportViewServlet.java:313)
at com.jpm.aqueduct.reports.reportViewServlet.doGet(reportViewServlet.java:46)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.__invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.__invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:953)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1041)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:603)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:312)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Let us know if any insight into what could be going wrong here.