hybris Backoffice application throwing NullpointerException

Question

I'm working with hybris 5.2. When I access my backoffice application and log in, I get the NullpointerException below.

This is before even creating an extension to extend the backoffice extension that comes with the hybris commerce suite.

Looks like some context is missing a site, but I'm not sure which context and how to set a site to it.

Also, I'm logging in as Admin, so I don't know why the ImpersonationService. I thought the Admin was supposed to just have access to everything.

This is the error message from the console:

INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:52.984 | [0;31mERROR [hybrisHTTP6] [DefaultImpersonationService] Couldn't determine the site from the context. Hence the site related session state won't be adjusted.
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:52.985 | [m[0;31mERROR [hybrisHTTP1] [DefaultImpersonationService] Couldn't determine the site from the context. Hence the site related session state won't be adjusted.
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:53.487 | [m
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.298 | Aug 17, 2014 6:39:54 PM org.zkoss.zk.ui.impl.UiEngineImpl handleError:1352
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.298 | SEVERE: >>java.lang.NullPointerException
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at de.hybris.commercesearchbackoffice.widgets.siteselector.data.SiteInternalData.<init>(SiteInternalData.java:33)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at de.hybris.commercesearchbackoffice.widgets.siteselector.controller.SiteSelectorController.setDefaults(SiteSelectorController.java:105)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at de.hybris.commercesearchbackoffice.widgets.siteselector.controller.SiteSelectorController$1.onEvent(SiteSelectorController.java:93)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.AbstractComponent.onEvent(AbstractComponent.java:2742)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.AbstractComponent.service(AbstractComponent.java:2713)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.AbstractComponent.service(AbstractComponent.java:2654)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.impl.EventProcessor.process(EventProcessor.java:136)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.impl.UiEngineImpl.processEvent(UiEngineImpl.java:1710)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.impl.UiEngineImpl.process(UiEngineImpl.java:1495)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.impl.UiEngineImpl.execNewPage0(UiEngineImpl.java:464)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.impl.UiEngineImpl.execNewPage(UiEngineImpl.java:316)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.http.DHtmlLayoutServlet.process(DHtmlLayoutServlet.java:214)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.zkoss.zk.ui.http.DHtmlLayoutServlet.doGet(DHtmlLayoutServlet.java:135)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:620)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:330)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:118)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.299 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:84)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.300 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.300 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:113)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.300 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.300 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter.doFilter(SessionManagementFilter.java:103)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.300 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.300 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:113)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2014/08/17 18:39:54.300 | >>  at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)

Answer 1

Looks like it's being caused by the commercesearchbackoffice extension.

If you can do without it for now, you can comment it out of your localextensions.xml file. You'll have to make do without the nice perspective and widgets that it adds to the backoffice, but since those are not working anyway...

You might also want to have a look at the Search and Navigation module, on the hybris wiki, to see if you didn't miss out on any required configuration.