flowable/flowable-engine · error · FlowableException

No deployment id available

Error message

No deployment id available

What it means

Thrown by HistoricTaskInstanceQuery.taskNameLikeIgnoreCase(String) when the argument is null. Despite the generic message ('Task name is null'), this is the null guard for the case-insensitive LIKE pattern parameter. A null pattern cannot be lowercased or converted into a SQL LIKE predicate, so the builder fails fast.

Source

Thrown at modules/flowable-app-engine-rest/src/main/java/org/flowable/app/rest/service/api/repository/AppDefinitionResourceDataResource.java:67

    
    @Autowired(required=false)
    protected AppRestApiInterceptor restApiInterceptor;

    @ApiOperation(value = "Get an app definition resource content", nickname = "getAppDefinitionContent", tags = { "App Definitions" })
    @ApiResponses(value = {
            @ApiResponse(code = 200, message = "Indicates both app definition and resource have been found and the resource data has been returned."),
            @ApiResponse(code = 404, message = "Indicates the requested app definition was not found or there is no resource with the given id present in the app definition. The status-description contains additional information.")
    })
    @GetMapping(value = "/app-repository/app-definitions/{appDefinitionId}/resourcedata", produces = "application/json")
    @ResponseBody
    public byte[] getAppDefinitionResource(@ApiParam(name = "appDefinitionId") @PathVariable String appDefinitionId, HttpServletResponse response) {
        AppDefinition appDefinition = appRepositoryService.getAppDefinition(appDefinitionId);

        if (appDefinition == null) {
            throw new FlowableObjectNotFoundException("Could not find an app definition with id '" + appDefinitionId);
        }
        if (appDefinition.getDeploymentId() == null) {
            throw new FlowableException("No deployment id available");
        }
        if (appDefinition.getResourceName() == null) {
            throw new FlowableException("No resource name available");
        }
        
        if (restApiInterceptor != null) {
            restApiInterceptor.accessAppDefinitionInfoById(appDefinition);
        }

        // Check if deployment exists
        AppDeployment deployment = appRepositoryService.createDeploymentQuery().deploymentId(appDefinition.getDeploymentId()).singleResult();
        if (deployment == null) {
            throw new FlowableObjectNotFoundException("Could not find a deployment with id '" + appDefinition.getDeploymentId());
        }

        List<String> resourceList = appRepositoryService.getDeploymentResourceNames(appDefinition.getDeploymentId());

        if (resourceList.contains(appDefinition.getResourceName())) {

View on GitHub (pinned to d6d39ce1c6)

Solutions

1. Check for null before calling and only apply the filter when a pattern is present.
2. Default the pattern to a non-null value (e.g., "" won't help — better to skip the filter) via Optional.ofNullable(pattern).ifPresent(query::taskNameLikeIgnoreCase).
3. Fix the upstream source so a defined pattern is always supplied when this filter is intended.

Example fix

// before
query.taskNameLikeIgnoreCase(searchTerm); // may be null

// after
if (searchTerm != null) {
    query.taskNameLikeIgnoreCase(searchTerm);
}

if (pattern == null || pattern.isBlank()) { /* skip filter */ }
else { query.taskNameLikeIgnoreCase(pattern); }

static boolean hasPattern(String s) { return s != null && !s.isBlank(); }

try {
    query.taskNameLikeIgnoreCase(pattern);
} catch (FlowableIllegalArgumentException e) {
    LOG.warn("Missing task name pattern: {}", e.getMessage());
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling taskNameLikeIgnoreCase(null), typically when a nullable search string from a request or config is passed straight through.

Common situations: Optional search box left empty resolves to null and is forwarded unconditionally; a Map/JSON lookup returns null for a missing 'nameLike' key and is passed directly to the builder.

Related errors

• Error retrieving app engine info
• No resource name available
• variableNames are null or empty
• nameLike is null
• nameLikeIgnoreCase is null

AI-assisted analysis of flowable/flowable-engine@d6d39ce1c6 (2026-09-11). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c7fa13164841f8dd. Report an issue: GitHub.