Performing Action Results in 'Column ID Cannot be Null'

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Symptoms

When performing any action in JIRA, an error is returned. Messages like the following appear in the logs:

org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericEntityException: while inserting: [GenericEntity:ChangeGroup][id,null][author,jcurry][created,2010-02-22 12:00:00.000][issue,10001] (SQL Exception while executing the following:INSERT INTO changegroup (ID, issueid, AUTHOR, CREATED) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?) (Column 'ID' cannot be null))

Cause

Database Communitcation:

  • The connection between JIRA and the MySQL database has been closed.

JIRA running into datatype errors

2013-09-04 14:54:01,589 http-8080-21 WARN anonymous 894x76552x1 - 172.22.50.64 /rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2 [ofbiz.core.entity.SequenceUtil] '2.14748369E9' in column '1' is outside valid range for the datatype INTEGER.
2013-09-04 14:54:01,589 http-8080-21 ERROR anonymous 894x76552x1 - 172.22.50.64 /rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2 [ofbiz.core.entity.SequenceUtil] [SequenceUtil.SequenceBank.getNextSeqId] Fill bank failed, returning null
  • Basically JIRA assigns the unique IDs that are stored in the database.  In the above error, the ID count had reached an extremely high number, resulting into datatype errors.

Resolution

If the cause is due to database communication issues:

In order to prevent this problem from happening in future, add a validation query which JIRA will use when communicating with its database. For more details on how to set the validation query, see:

If the cause is due to JIRA running into datatype errors:

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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