ODSEE / DSCC - NullPointerException Crash During Validation of Index Modification on a Suffix with Apache Tomcat as Application Server (Doc ID 1485218.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 06, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

Error seen in DSCC window after modification of an index on a suffix.

Exception encountered during forward

com.iplanet.jato.NavigationException: Exception encountered during forward Root cause = [java.lang.NullPointerException]
    com.iplanet.jato.view.ViewBeanBase.forward(ViewBeanBase.java:380)
    com.iplanet.jato.view.ViewBeanBase.forwardTo(ViewBeanBase.java:261)
    com.iplanet.jato.ApplicationServletBase.dispatchRequest(ApplicationServletBase.java:981)
    com.iplanet.jato.ApplicationServletBase.processRequest(ApplicationServletBase.java:615)
    com.iplanet.jato.ApplicationServletBase.doPost(ApplicationServletBase.java:473)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
    com.sun.web.admin.directory.dcc.solo.DCCSoloSessionManagerFilter.doFilter(DCCSoloSessionManagerFilter.java:151)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
    org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
    org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
    org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
    org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
    org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
    org.apach

On checking the catalina.out log from Tomcat 5, we see this message,

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Parameter count exceeded allowed maximum: 512

Cause

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