Java.lang.NullPointerException Error when Harvesting from ODI Repository in OEMM where Kafka or HDFS Are Used (Doc ID 2547621.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

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Symptoms

When trying to harvest an Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management (OEMM) Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Repository that's using a Kafka or HDFS model, the following error is thrown:

[<TID>/main] 2018-12-05 07:18:42 MBI_ODI_W0084 Undefined data type 'STRING'. Model - 'KAFKA'. Datastore type - 'ORACLE_DATA_INTEGRATOR_API.GENERIC_SQL'.

[<TID>/main] 2018-12-05 07:18:42 MBCM_F0029 java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi11.Import.ColumnProcessor.importColumns(ColumnProcessor.java:75)
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi11.Import.ModelProcessor.importDataStoreColumns(ModelProcessor.java:362)
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi11.Import.ModelProcessor.importModelDataStore(ModelProcessor.java:341)
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi12.Import.LowMemoryStrategyProcessor.loadSubModelDatastores(LowMemoryStrategyProcessor.java:871)
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi12.Import.LowMemoryStrategyProcessor.importModelsById(LowMemoryStrategyProcessor.java:835)
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi12.Import.LowMemoryStrategyProcessor.run(LowMemoryStrategyProcessor.java:165)
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi12.Import.MIROracleDataIntegratorImport.run(MIROracleDataIntegratorImport.java:218)
at MITI.bridges.javabridge.JavaBridge.runImport(JavaBridge.java:103)
at MITI.bridges.javabridge.JavaBridge.main(JavaBridge.java:478)

[<TID>/[OracleDataIntegratorImport, Met] 2018-12-05 07:18:42 MIMB_E0042 [JBDG_F0006] The Java process did not complete successfully
MITI.MIRException: [JBDG_F0006] The Java process did not complete successfully
at MITI.bridges.javabridgeinterface.JavaBridgeExec.exec(JavaBridgeExec.java:514)
at MITI.bridges.javabridgeinterface.JavaBridgeExec.javaImport(JavaBridgeExec.java:122)
at MITI.bridges.oracle.odi.Import.MIROracleDataIntegratorImportInterface.run(MIROracleDataIntegratorImportInterface.java:75)
at MITI.mimb.executable.actions.ImportAction.run(ImportAction.java:233)
at MITI.mimb.executable.actions.Action.execute(Action.java:90)
at MITI.mimb.executable.MimbExecutable.executeRequest(MimbExecutable.java:583)
at MITI.mimb.executable.MimbExecutable.executeRequest(MimbExecutable.java:507)
at MITI.mimb.executable.MimbExecutable.executeRequest(MimbExecutable.java:488)
at MITI.providers.mimb.MimbExecutionThread.run(MimbExecutionThread.java:170)

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