2639069 - SAPUI5 iview Portal Runtime Error: NullPointerException of a null object loaded from local variable 's'

• You are using a SAPUI5 iView in the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal
• When you try to access the iView, you receive a Portal Runtime Error, and the SAPUI5 Application will not load
• Checking the Developer Default Trace files, you observe an error similar to the below:
  "[EXCEPTION]
  com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentException: Error in service call of Portal Component
  Application name : com.sap.portal.appintegrator.sap
  Component : pcd:portal_content/<SAPUI5 iView pcd location>
  Component class : com.sapportals.portal.sapapplication.SAPApplicationIntegratorComponent
  User : <user_id>
  at com.sap.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.handlePortalComponentException(PortalRequestManager.java:776)
  at com.sap.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.callPortalComponent(PortalRequestManager.java:235)
  ...
  Caused by: com.sapportals.portal.prt.runtime.PortalRuntimeException: Exception in SAP Application Integrator occured: Exception occured in layer UI5/UI5URLLayer
  at com.sapportals.portal.appintegrator.AbstractIntegratorComponent.doContentPass(AbstractIntegratorComponent.java:216)
  ...
  Caused by: com.sapportals.portal.appintegrator.ApplicationIntegratorException: Exception occured in layer UI5/UI5URLLayer
  at com.sapportals.portal.appintegrator.LayerProcessor.processActionPass(LayerProcessor.java:209)
  ...
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.lang.String.startsWith(java.lang.String) of a null object loaded from local variable 's'
  at com.sapportals.portal.sapapplication.ui5.UI5URLLayer.processLayer(UI5URLLayer.java:18)
  at com.sapportals.portal.appintegrator.LayerProcessor.processActionPass(LayerProcessor.java:175)
  ..."

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java 7.3x and higher releases
• Enterprise Portal

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