[OODT-486] WorkflowInstance tries to cast null strings into dates causing exceptions on getters/setters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Component/s: workflow manager
• Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
• Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
• Created: 26/Aug/12 18:04
• Updated: 26/Aug/12 18:43
• Resolved: 26/Aug/12 18:43

Description

When I was upgrading the workflow manager to handle wengine, to keep back compat, I left the methods that allowed devs to pass strings to set workflow instance start/end times and current task start/end times. However, I didn't check if the values passed in were null (which happens when SerDe occurs from an inst repository sometimes). We need to do some simple checking to fix this. Commit coming soon.