[OFBIZ-12173] Visit disabling causes NullPointerException on ecomm groovy script

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Release Branch 18.12, Trunk, 17.12.05
• Fix Version/s: 17.12.06, 18.12.01
• Component/s: ecommerce
• Labels: visit

Environment

Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Apache OFBiz v13.07.03

• Assignee: Pawan Verma
• Reporter: Giulio Speri
• Created: 08/Feb/21 23:15
• Updated: 16/Feb/21 11:25
• Resolved: 12/Feb/21 03:59

Description

Disable tracking of Visits and Visitors, setting false the value of stats.persist.visit stats.persist.visitor in serverstats.properties file, causes a NullPointerException in the groovy script ecommerce/groovyScript/customer/NewCustomer.groovy.

 Attached here below a screenshot of the error.

This error also afflicts older version of OFBiz (the screenshot is taken from an ecommerce site running on OFBiz 13.07.03)