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bkconley
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7.3 Cafe Plugin issue with inventory

In vRO 7.3, we're seeing an issue where a nullPointerException is thrown when trying to view the Requests folder in a vRA Host.

To reproduce the issue:

in vRO, go to the Inventory tab, expand vRA Automation, expand the vRA host

Click on arrow next to the Requests folder to expand it.

The requests do not load, and in vRO server.log, you see this:

2017-05-26 14:50:58.115+0000 [https-jsse-nio-0.0.0.0-8281-exec-10] ERROR {} [EntitiesFinder] Error retrieving results from VRA server: null

2017-05-26 14:50:58.116+0000 [https-jsse-nio-0.0.0.0-8281-exec-10] ERROR {} [InventoryService] findChildrenInRelation error! host: Default (2bde775f-072a-4b9d-897e-8a5ad01a1685), type: VCACHost, id: 2bde775f-072a-4b9d-897e-8a5ad01a1685, relationName: CatalogItemRequest, exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException

2017-05-26 14:50:58.149+0000 [https-jsse-nio-0.0.0.0-8281-exec-10] ERROR {} [EntitiesFinder] Error retrieving results from VRA server: null

2017-05-26 14:50:58.150+0000 [https-jsse-nio-0.0.0.0-8281-exec-10] ERROR {} [InventoryService] findChildrenInRelation error! host: Default (2bde775f-072a-4b9d-897e-8a5ad01a1685), type: VCACHost, id: 2bde775f-072a-4b9d-897e-8a5ad01a1685, relationName: ResourceActionRequest, exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException

I am using an external vRO and a Shared Session endpoint, but the same thing happens with the Default "Per User" endpoint as well.

This has also been tested against the embedded vRO and the error is present there as well.

Workflows that attempt to read the Requests objects from vRO are affected by this.

Other objects appear to be fine.  Catalog, Items and Administration inventories are reachable.

Can anyone else corroborate?

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iiliev
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

I'm seeing similar messages (although in my case it is not NullPointerException but InvocationTargetException).

Will forward this thread to CAFE plug-in developers; maybe they will have a clue.

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iiliev
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Got a reply from CAFE plug-in team that they are aware of this issue, there is an PR open and it is being worked on.

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