2394484 - "Error" appears in IDT without any further explanation during refresh structure

• Generic error message appears in IDT without any detailed explanation.
• The error appears in Data Foundation during the refresh structure of the universe.
• The issue was not persisted in BI 4.0, it only appears first from BI 4.1.
• The issue occurs only with multi source universes.
• The following can be seen from the client tool trace log:
  java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
                  at com.businessobjects.bimodeler.datafoundation.wizards.refreshstructure.model.RefreshStructureRunnable.run(RefreshStructureRunnable.java:217)
                  at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
                  at com.sap.datafederator.designer.datafoundation.refreshstructure.RefreshStructure.hasInterestOnTable(RefreshStructure.java:534)
                  at com.sap.datafederator.designer.datafoundation.refreshstructure.RefreshStructure.hasInterestOnTask(RefreshStructure.java:161)
                  at com.businessobjects.bimodeler.datafoundation.wizards.refreshstructure.model.RefreshStructureRunnable.fillContainersIfApplied(RefreshStructureRunnable.java:320)
                  at com.businessobjects.bimodeler.datafoundation.wizards.refreshstructure.model.RefreshStructureRunnable.run(RefreshStructureRunnable.java:137)
                  ... 1 more

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.1 SP7
• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.2 SP3
• Information Design Tool
• Multi source universe

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