Internal Server Error when accessing board configuration if workflow steps and statuses are not configured correctly

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      JIRA appears to not validate workflow XML when importing it. This means that you could import a workflow which refers to statuses which do not exist in the system.

      If a project which uses such a workflow is shown on a board, then when a user attempts to configure the board, they will see an Internal Server Error with the following stack trace:

      2013-01-13 17:57:05,450 http-bio-9080-exec-2521 ERROR mtokar 1077x545487x3 1mggf6n 59.167.133.100,172.16.3.10 /rest/greenhopper/1.0/rapidviewconfig/editmodel.json [common.error.jer
sey.ThrowableExceptionMapper] Uncaught exception thrown by REST service
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.view.ColumnEditHelper.asStatusEntry(ColumnEditHelper.java:295)
        at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.view.ColumnEditHelper.buildColumnStatusesModel(ColumnEditHelper.java:283)
        at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.view.ColumnEditHelper.buildColumnEditModel(ColumnEditHelper.java:178)
        at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.view.RapidViewEditHelper.getEditModel(RapidViewEditHelper.java:125)
        at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.view.RapidViewEditResource$6.call(RapidViewEditResource.java:182)
        at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.view.RapidViewEditResource$6.call(RapidViewEditResource.java:175)

      Although JIRA should fix this so that validation occurs, we can also add a null check to ensure that such problematic workflows do not break GreenHopper. This should not be a common occurrence.

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            Reporter:
            Michael Tokar
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