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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Metadata for Journal Articles Not Indexing Appropriately during Upgrade Process

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Ben Clement

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Issue

  • During the upgrade process, UpgradeImageTypeContent#copyJournalArticleImagesToJournalRepository copies all journal article images into the Document Library repository. In order to achieve this, DLFileEntry API is called, which creates a DLFileEntry record and also creates a DLFileVersion record per image. Before finishing that method a listener, which populates the metadata for the DLFileVersion records, is fired and an exception is thrown at this point when trying to index the metadata:

    WARN [liferay/document_library_raw_metadata_processor-1][RawMetadataProcessorMessageListener:38] Unable to save metadata for file version 2097347
 java.lang.NullPointerException

Environment

  • Liferay EE 6.2
  • Liferay DXP 7.1

Resolution

  • LPS-97044 has been created to address the behavior.

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