"An error occurred while populating the business object for the data service" Displayed when Creating Business Objects And Data Visualizations (Doc ID 2910029.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 10, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

Below errors are returned when trying to create Business Objects and Visualizations from a REST data source.

User Interface:

An error occurred while populating business object for the data service <DATASOURCE_NAME>

diagnostic log of portal server:

[WC_Spaces] [WARNING] [] [oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.view.businessobject.DataSourceBean] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '21' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: <USERID>] [ecid: <ECID>] [APP: webcenter] [partition-name: DOMAIN] [tenant-name: GLOBAL] [DSID: <DSID>] An error occurred while populating the business object for the data service '<DATASOURCE_NAME>'
[<TIMESTAMP>] [WC_Spaces] [WARNING] [] [oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.view.businessobject.DataSourceBean] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '21' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: <USERID>] [ecid: <ECID>] [APP: webcenter] [partition-name: DOMAIN] [tenant-name: GLOBAL] [DSID: <DSID>] [[
oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.exception.DataPresenterException
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.api.autocreate.ServiceAPI.autoPopulateBusinessObject(ServiceAPI.java:193)
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.view.businessobject.BOAutoCreateBean.populateCurrentBusinessObject(BOAutoCreateBean.java:693)
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.view.businessobject.BOAutoCreateBean.populateBOForDataService(BOAutoCreateBean.java:1409)
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.view.businessobject.DataSourceBean.listSelectionChange(DataSourceBean.java:522)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.sun.el.util.ReflectionUtil.invokeMethod(ReflectionUtil.java:181)
at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:289)
at com.sun.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke(MethodExpressionImpl.java:304)
at org.jboss.weld.util.el.ForwardingMethodExpression.invoke(ForwardingMethodExpression.java:40)
at org.jboss.weld.el.WeldMethodExpression.invoke(WeldMethodExpression.java:50)
..
..
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.dataservice.common.DCDefinition.addAccessorAttributes(DCDefinition.java:90)
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.dataservice.common.AbstractDataService.listParameters(AbstractDataService.java:574)
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.api.autocreate.ServiceAPI.addMethodAttributesAndParameters(ServiceAPI.java:449)
at oracle.webcenter.datapresenter.internal.api.autocreate.ServiceAPI.autoPopulateBusinessObject(ServiceAPI.java:176)

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