NullPointerException from Jira portlet plugin stops rendering page

If the jiraportlet macro throws a NullPointerException it stops all rendering of the page and displays the massive error bellow instead of the rest of the page. Confluence should catch and exceptions from plugins and continue rendering the page. Potentially providing a link to the system error information currently printed on the page.

System Error

A system error has occurred.

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Else, please create a support issue on our support system at http://support.atlassian.com with the following information:

1. a description of your problem
2. cut & paste the error and system information found below
3. attach the application server log file (file:/opt/atlassian/servers/apache-tomcat-5.5.26/logs/atlassian-jira.log )

Cause:
java.lang.NullPointerException

Stack Trace: [hide]

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jsp.secure.views.runportlet_jsp._jspService(runportlet_jsp.java:90)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:331)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:679)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:461)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:399)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.dispatcher.JiraServletDispatcher.service(JiraServletDispatcher.java:253)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.AccessLogFilter.doFilter(AccessLogFilter.java:51)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:119)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:55)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.SitemeshExcludePathFilter.doFilter(SitemeshExcludePathFilter.java:38)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:182)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:181)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.util.profiling.filters.ProfilingFilter.doFilter(ProfilingFilter.java:132)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.ProfilingAndErrorFilter.doFilter(ProfilingAndErrorFilter.java:35)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.ActionCleanupDelayFilter.doFilter(ActionCleanupDelayFilter.java:39)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.johnson.filters.JohnsonFilter.doFilter(JohnsonFilter.java:91)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.gzip.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:72)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:37)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Referer URL: Unknown

Build Information:
Uptime: N/A
Edition: Enterprise
Version: 3.6.5
Build Number: 161
Atlassian Partner: null

Server Information:
Application Server: Apache Tomcat/5.5.26
Servlet Version: 2.4

File Paths:
Location of entityengine.xml: file:/opt/atlassian/servers/tomcat/webapps/jira/WEB-INF/classes/entityengine.xml
Location of atlassian-jira.log: file:/opt/atlassian/servers/apache-tomcat-5.5.26/logs/atlassian-jira.log

Memory Information:
Total Memory: 1608 MB
Free Memory: 309 MB
Used Memory: 1299 MB

System Information:
System Date: Tuesday, 25 Mar 2008
System Time: 14:43:02
Current Working Directory: /opt/atlassian/servers/apache-tomcat-5.5.26/logs
Java Version: 1.5.0_15
Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Version: 1.0
JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Implementation Version: 1.5.0_15-b04
Java Runtime: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition
Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
User Name: wiki
User Timezone: PST8PDT
User Locale: English (United States)
System Encoding: UTF-8
Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-42.7.ELsmp
OS Architecture: amd64
Application Server Container:
Database type: oracle10g
Database JNDI address: java:comp/env/jdbc/JiraDS
Database version: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production
Database driver: Oracle JDBC driver 10.1.0.5.0

Request Information:
Request URL: http://jira.example.com/jira/500page.jsp

• Scheme: http
• Server: jira.example.com
• Port: 80
• URI: /jira/500page.jsp
• - Context Path: /jira
• - Servlet Path: /500page.jsp
• - Path Info: null
• - Query String: portletKey=com.ja.jira.plugin.searchrequest:SearchRequestPortlet&filterid=13102&numofentries=20&showdescription=true&os_username=rss&os_password=rss&
  Request Attributes:
• javax.servlet.forward.request_uri : /jira/secure/RunPortlet.jspa
• javax.servlet.forward.context_path : /jira
• javax.servlet.forward.servlet_path : /secure/RunPortlet.jspa
• javax.servlet.forward.path_info : /500page.jsp
• javax.servlet.forward.query_string : portletKey=com.ja.jira.plugin.searchrequest:SearchRequestPortlet&filterid=13102&numofentries=20&showdescription=true&os_username=rss&os_password=rss&
• javax.servlet.error.message :
• javax.servlet.error.exception : org.apache.jasper.JasperException
• os_securityfilter_already_filtered : true
• com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.ActionCleanupDelayFilter : true
• com.atlassian.johnson.filters.JohnsonFilter_already_filtered : true
• javax.servlet.error.request_uri : /jira/secure/RunPortlet.jspa
• jira.webwork.generic.dispatcher : webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher@22021388
• javax.servlet.error.status_code : 500
• webwork.view_uri : /secure/views/runportlet.jsp
• _sitemesh_filterapplied : true
• os_authstatus : success
• jira.webwork.cleanup : false
• javax.servlet.error.servlet_name : action
• com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.gzip.GzipFilter_already_filtered : true
• atlassian.core.seraph.original.url : /secure/RunPortlet.jspa?portletKey=com.ja.jira.plugin.searchrequest:SearchRequestPortlet&filterid=13102&numofentries=20&showdescription=true&os_username=rss&os_password=rss&
• loginfilter.already.filtered : true
• webwork.result : Value stack =========== ===========
• webwork.request_uri : /jira/secure/RunPortlet.jspa

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