Issues with Design Studio Application

[alexdc12]

Since upgrading our BI Platform to BI 4.2 SP06 Patch 300 & Lumira 2.2 Patch 1 one of our applicaiton is experiencing a strange problem. I have raised this with out Support Partner but thought i would reach out here also.

When we apply filters to the application it crashes.The error screen is as below

This happens in both Local mode and BIP mode, in Local mode i can see the following errors

The Error while generating HTMl seems like the best pointer anyone will have as to why this is happening i think, below is the full error.

com.sap.ip.bi.base.exception.BIBaseRuntimeException: Error while generating HTML
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.render(UiItem.java:521)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.getSnippetContent(UiItem.java:466)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.getSnippetContent(ZenUiContainer.java:531)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.rendering.snippet.impl.SnippetCollection.buildDocument(SnippetCollection.java:301)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.rendering.snippet.impl.SnippetCollection.getContent(SnippetCollection.java:101)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.page.Page.buildRenderingTree(Page.java:1304)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.page.Page.processRenderingRootNode(Page.java:4256)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.page.Page.processRendering(Page.java:4214)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.page.Page.doProcessRequest(Page.java:2225)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.page.Page._processRequest(Page.java:683)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.page.Page.processRequest(Page.java:4279)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.page.Page.processRequest(Page.java:4271)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.controller.Controller.doProcessRequest(Controller.java:1250)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.controller.Controller._processRequest(Controller.java:1104)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.controller.Controller.processRequest(Controller.java:1070)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.controller.Controller.processRequest(Controller.java:1)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.server.runtime.sevice.impl.BIRuntimeServerService._handleRequest(BIRuntimeServerService.java:522)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.server.runtime.sevice.impl.BIRuntimeServerService.handleRequest(BIRuntimeServerService.java:970)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.server.execution.engine.runtime.LocalBIExecutionService.executeRequest(LocalBIExecutionService.java:34)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.designer.LocalExecutionAdapter.executeRequest(LocalExecutionAdapter.java:39)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.RuntimeRequestHandler.handleRequest(RuntimeRequestHandler.java:28)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.designer.DesignerRuntimeRequestHandler.handleRequest(DesignerRuntimeRequestHandler.java:33)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.MainHandler.executeBiRequest(MainHandler.java:69)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.MainHandler.handleRegularRequest(MainHandler.java:57)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.MainHandler.handleRequest(MainHandler.java:35)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.PathHandler.handleRequest(PathHandler.java:54)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.designer.DesignerPathHandler.handleRequest(DesignerPathHandler.java:56)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.AbstractSupportabilityHandler.handleRequest(AbstractSupportabilityHandler.java:25)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.AbstractFrontServlet.handleRequest(AbstractFrontServlet.java:73)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.AbstractFrontServlet.handleRequest(AbstractFrontServlet.java:29)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.AbstractFrontServlet.doPost(AbstractFrontServlet.java:24)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.client.handler.AbstractFrontServlet.service(AbstractFrontServlet.java:66)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.HttpServiceRuntimeImpl$LegacyServlet.service(HttpServiceRuntimeImpl.java:1223)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.registration.EndpointRegistration.service(EndpointRegistration.java:148)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.servlet.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:50)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.webserver.designer.ZenSessionFilter.doFilter(ZenSessionFilter.java:66)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.HttpServiceRuntimeImpl$LegacyFilterFactory$LegacyFilter.doFilter(HttpServiceRuntimeImpl.java:1182)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.registration.FilterRegistration.doFilter(FilterRegistration.java:121)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.servlet.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:45)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.servlet.ResponseStateHandler.processRequest(ResponseStateHandler.java:70)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.context.DispatchTargets.doDispatch(DispatchTargets.java:131)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.servlet.ProxyServlet.service(ProxyServlet.java:74)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.http.jetty.internal.HttpServerManager$InternalHttpServiceServlet.service(HttpServerManager.java:284)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:841)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:535)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:188)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:188)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1253)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:168)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:166)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1155)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:561)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:334)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:279)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:104)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:124)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:247)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.produce(EatWhatYouKill.java:140)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:131)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:243)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:679)
 at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:597)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:836)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method com.sap.ip.bi.base.application.base.ValueType.toString() of a null object loaded from local variable 'valueType'
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.ds.impl.projection.Member.renderMeasureSpecifics(Member.java:262)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.ds.impl.projection.Member.render(Member.java:137)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.ds.impl.projection.Dimension.render(Dimension.java:150)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.ds.impl.projection.JsonDataProjector.renderMetadataInternal(JsonDataProjector.java:179)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.ds.impl.projection.JsonDataProjector.render(JsonDataProjector.java:268)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.ProjectionBoundProperty.render(ProjectionBoundProperty.java:72)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.sdk.impl.SdkComponentShared.renderProperties(SdkComponentShared.java:195)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.sdk.impl.SdkComponent.renderComponentContent(SdkComponent.java:186)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.writeComponentOutput(UiItem.java:1649)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.renderComponent(UiItem.java:1569)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiQueryReferenceComponent.renderComponent(ZenUiQueryReferenceComponent.java:210)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderSingleChild(ZenUiContainer.java:578)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderChildren(ZenUiContainer.java:552)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.tabstrip.impl.TabComponent.renderChildren(TabComponent.java:132)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.tabstrip.impl.TabComponent.renderComponentContent(TabComponent.java:110)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.writeComponentOutput(UiItem.java:1649)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.renderComponent(UiItem.java:1569)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderSingleChild(ZenUiContainer.java:578)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderChildren(ZenUiContainer.java:552)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.tabstrip.impl.TabstripComponent.renderComponentContent(TabstripComponent.java:239)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.writeComponentOutput(UiItem.java:1649)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.renderComponent(UiItem.java:1569)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderSingleChild(ZenUiContainer.java:578)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderChildren(ZenUiContainer.java:552)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.panel.impl.PanelComponent.renderComponentContent(PanelComponent.java:60)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.writeComponentOutput(UiItem.java:1649)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.renderComponent(UiItem.java:1569)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderSingleChild(ZenUiContainer.java:578)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.base.ZenUiContainer.renderChildren(ZenUiContainer.java:552)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.abslayout.impl.AbsoluteLayoutComponent.renderChildren(AbsoluteLayoutComponent.java:342)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.abslayout.impl.AbsoluteLayoutComponent.renderComponentContent(AbsoluteLayoutComponent.java:254)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.writeComponentOutput(UiItem.java:1649)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.renderComponent(UiItem.java:1569)
 at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.ui.items.UiItem.render(UiItem.java:509)
 ... 71 more

SAP Note 2594955 seems to be very similar but this was fixed in Lumira 2.1 SP1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[alexdc12]

I have narrowed this down to a Datasource/Chart combo. The datasource has to contain a selection key figure that is empty and has culmulation set. This then triggers the error when filtering for a filter value that has empty values throughout that KF. A Chart has to be set to use this data or the error doesnt materialise, if using a crosstab to show the data no error occurs.