[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.3 - Forum tool Groups not preventing students in Groups from seeing other Group forums

[Wilson, Kimberly]

We have been getting several sakai errors related to forums in the past couple of weeks:

Instructors have created groups in the forum tool, added students to the groups, set permissions and added forums to the specific groups.
Students in the groups are still able to see the forums set to be viewed by other groups.

There are also problems with permission changes not being saved and creating errors.

Here's some snippets from the errors.  If anyone can help  or wants more details, please let me know, or if I should add more detail to an existing jira:

#1:

caused by: org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolException: javax.servlet.ServletException: #{ForumTool.processActionSaveTemplateOrganization}: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: java.lang.NullPointerException

    at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.forwardTool(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:1487)

caused by: javax.servlet.ServletException: #{ForumTool.processActionSaveTemplateOrganization

DiscussionForumTool.processActionSaveTemplateOrganization(DiscussionForumTool.java:935


Tool Placement:

No Placement



Requested URL:https://sakai.amc.edu/portal/tool/9687e844-f23b-4f9a-9800-f1bee68e160c/discussionForum/area/dfTemplateOrganize



#2:

caused by: org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolException: javax.servlet.ServletException: #{ForumTool.processActionSaveTemplateOrganization}: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: java.lang.NullPointerException at:

org.sakaiproject.component.app.messageforums.dao.hibernate.BaseForumImpl.getTopics(BaseForumImpl.java:112)

at
MessageForumsForumManagerImpl.saveDiscussionForum(MessageForumsForumManagerImpl.java:899)

Requested URL:https://sakai.amc.edu/portal/tool/9687e844-f23b-4f9a-9800-f1bee68e160c/discussionForum/area/dfTemplateOrganize



#3:

caused by: org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolException: javax.servlet.ServletException: #{ForumTool.processActionSaveTemplateOrganization}: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: java.lang.NullPointerException

    at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.forwardTool(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:1487)
caused by: javax.servlet.ServletException: #{ForumTool.processActionSaveTemplateOrganization}: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: java.lang.NullPointerException



Requested URL:https://sakai.amc.edu/portal/tool/9687e844-f23b-4f9a-9800-f1bee68e160c/discussionForum/area/dfTemplateOrganize



#4:

caused by: org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolException: javax.servlet.ServletException: Error testing property 'body' in bean of type null

    at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.forwardTool(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:1487)

caused by: javax.servlet.ServletException: Error testing property 'body' in bean of type null

    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

caused by: javax.faces.el.PropertyNotFoundException: Error testing property 'body' in bean of type null

    at com.sun.faces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getType(PropertyResolverImpl.java:362)

Requested URL:https://sakai.amc.edu/portal/tool/b3930040-b72b-46cf-ab76-e90e3d7df172/dfMessageReply



#5:
HibernateOptimisticLockingFailureException: Object of class [org.sakaiproject.component.app.messageforums.dao.hibernate.DBMembershipItemImpl] with identifier [62042]: optimistic locking failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.StaleObjectStateException: Row was updated or deleted by another transaction (or unsaved-value mapping was incorrect):

Requested URL:https://sakai.amc.edu/portal/tool/9687e844-f23b-4f9a-9800-f1bee68e160c/discussionForum/area/dfTemplateSettings

I found this jira, but it's been Closed and Cannot reproduce:
Forum message delete failure due to HibernateOptimisticLockingFailureException
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25185

We already have the files indicated by Beth in the above Jira and are still getting that error.

Kim Wilson, MSCIS | Systems Analyst - Sakai & IS Academic Systems | Albany Medical Center | 518-264-1055



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