Exception log message if description is empty

[Former user]

The following exception is thrown and written to catalina.out, but the exception should be catched within the vm file.

2012-09-24 13:54:19,986 TP-Processor190 WARN gbkwc 834x346766x2 tptfwf 10.165.69.55 /browse/CODE [velocity] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = templates/projectroletab.vm [line 25,column 86] : $projectroledetail.projectrole.description is not a valid reference. at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:277) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:55) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach.render(Foreach.java:166) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:114) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:230) at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:256) at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:422) at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:77) at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:61)

[Holger Schimanski]

Cannot reproduce. Looks like a problem in older versions, when description of a project role was null and not empty.