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Node add gives a Call to a member function getAccountName() on null Drupal 9

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Created on 24 July 2020, over 4 years ago
Updated 28 January 2025, 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

When I visit node add I recibe a "Call to a member function getAccountName() on null " error.
Here is the full message.

Error: Call to a member function getAccountName() on null en Drupal\node\NodeForm->form() (línea 155 de /var/www/html/web/core/modules/node/src/NodeForm.php)
#0 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/EntityForm.php(106): Drupal\node\NodeForm->form(Array, Object(Drupal\Core\Form\FormState))
#1 [internal function]: Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityForm->buildForm(Array, Object(Drupal\Core\Form\FormState))
#2 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Form/FormBuilder.php(532): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#3 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Form/FormBuilder.php(278): Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilder->retrieveForm('node_project_fo...', Object(Drupal\Core\Form\FormState))
#4 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Controller/FormController.php(73): Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilder->buildForm(Object(Drupal\node\NodeForm), Object(Drupal\Core\Form\FormState))
#5 [internal function]: Drupal\Core\Controller\FormController->getContentResult(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), Object(Drupal\Core\Routing\RouteMatch))
#6 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber.php(123): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#7 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/Renderer.php(573): Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}()
#8 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber.php(124): Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->executeInRenderContext(Object(Drupal\Core\Render\RenderContext), Object(Closure))
#9 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber.php(97): Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->wrapControllerExecutionInRenderContext(Array, Array)
#10 /var/www/html/vendor/symfony/http-kernel/HttpKernel.php(158): Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}()
#11 /var/www/html/vendor/symfony/http-kernel/HttpKernel.php(80): Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handleRaw(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1)
#12 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/Session.php(57): Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#13 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/KernelPreHandle.php(47): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\Session->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#14 /var/www/html/web/core/modules/page_cache/src/StackMiddleware/PageCache.php(106): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\KernelPreHandle->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#15 /var/www/html/web/core/modules/page_cache/src/StackMiddleware/PageCache.php(85): Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->pass(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#16 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/ReverseProxyMiddleware.php(47): Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#17 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/NegotiationMiddleware.php(52): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ReverseProxyMiddleware->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#18 /var/www/html/vendor/stack/builder/src/Stack/StackedHttpKernel.php(23): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\NegotiationMiddleware->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#19 /var/www/html/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DrupalKernel.php(705): Stack\StackedHttpKernel->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request), 1, true)
#20 /var/www/html/web/index.php(19): Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request))
#21 {main}

Steps to reproduce

Visit node/add/[Bundle]

Proposed resolution

I think is related with the NodeForm, because try to retrieve the author of a new node, and it does not have it.
NodeForm::form

    $form['meta']['author'] = [
      '#type' => 'item',
      '#title' => $this->t('Author'),
      '#markup' => $node->getOwner()->getAccountName(),
      '#wrapper_attributes' => ['class' => ['entity-meta__author']],
    ];
🐛 Bug report
Status

Closed: duplicate

Version

9.1

Component

forms system

Created by

🇪🇸Spain eduardo morales alberti Spain, 🇪🇺

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  • Comment 2 months ago →
    🇮🇳India SandeepSingh199

    Hi, I added some more checks

    +    // Set default author.
+    $meta_author = \Drupal::currentUser()->getAccountName();
+    if (!$node->isNew() && $node->getOwner() != null) {
+      $meta_author = $node->getOwner()->getAccountName();
+    }
  • Comment 29 days ago →
    🇨🇦Canada joseph.olstad

    Hitting this with D11 , client deleted a user

  • Comment 29 days ago →
    🇨🇦Canada joseph.olstad
  • Merge request !11417Issue #3161212 by asubit, eduardo morales alberti, sandeepsingh199: Node add/edit gives a Call to a member function getAccountName() on null Drupal 11 → (Open) created by joseph.olstad
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  • Comment 29 days ago →
    🇨🇦Canada joseph.olstad

    Suggested workarounds from comment #8 and related suggestions did not yield any clues. Patch 32 works for us. Our client deleted some users in prod that were involved in site building and some specific use cases involving content. Result is a WSOD for related environments when doing a node edit. The page in question has nothing special, just a node form with some normal fields. The reference to the user that is null is somewhere in a revision or as author/owner. This is about all the meta I can provide at this time.

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  • Comment 28 days ago →
    🇮🇳India Sivaji_Ganesh_Jojodae Chennai

    > changed target branch from 11.x to 11.1.x

    Should be 11.x

  • Comment 28 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States nicxvan
  • Comment 26 days ago →
    🇬🇧United Kingdom catch
  • Comment 26 days ago →
    🇬🇧United Kingdom catch

    The issue title says node/add but that looks like a very old config export that was fixed in a different issue.

  • Comment 26 days ago →
    🇨🇭Switzerland berdir Switzerland

    It doesn't make sense to fall back to the current user. If there is no current owner, it shouldn't display anything. it will afaik set the current user then as owner on save, but it's not yet true. So it should just not display anything then.

    This _should_ not happen, deleting users should either delete the content or reassign it, this is just about dealing with invalid data.

    And yes, originally the issue was about problems with the default value config that wasn't updated, I think a new issue would have made more sense, but it's technically speaking that error.

  • Comment 26 days ago →
    🇬🇧United Kingdom catch

    It doesn't make sense to fall back to the current user. If there is no current owner, it shouldn't display anything. it will afaik set the current user then as owner on save, but it's not yet true. So it should just not display anything then.

    Yes agreed with this, and should possibly trigger_error() an E_USER_WARNING since it could be the result of a botched database update or attempt to prune user accounts and similar.

  • Comment 26 days ago →
    🇨🇦Canada joseph.olstad

    While it shouldn't happen, it did for us and it is 100% content or revision related. We have about 6 environments of the same build. My copy is a production dump from before the client deleted users. In my copy, I do not see the exception however in the more recent production copy where the users were deleted there is an exception and the patch is needed in this case.

    So 100% the configuration is the same in our test cases however the content is not the same.

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