Confusing message in Catalog Feed job if no catalog or configured catalog does not exist

Found in

EPiServer.Commerce 11.2.0

Fixed in

EPiServer.Commerce 11.2.2

(Or a related package)

Created

Aug 31, 2017

Updated

Sep 11, 2017

Area

Core

State

Closed, Fixed and tested

Description

If there is no catalog, or the configured catalog does not exist, a NullReferenceException is thrown. There should be an exception with a more informative message for this scenario.

2017-08-29 14:34:52,242 [85] ERROR EPiServer.DataAbstraction.ScheduledJob: Job EPiServer.Recommendations.Commerce.CatalogFeed.CatalogFeedJob failed for the job 'Export Product Feed' with jobId ='80dece2a-a7ee-4e61-a829-2f276b550406' 
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at EPiServer.Recommendations.Commerce.CatalogFeed.CatalogFeedJob.SendExportRequest(Uri blobId, Uri siteUrl)
   at EPiServer.Recommendations.Commerce.CatalogFeed.CatalogFeedJob.Execute()
   at EPiServer.Scheduler.Internal.DefaultScheduledJobExecutor.<Execute>d__31.MoveNext()
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at EPiServer.Recommendations.Commerce.CatalogFeed.CatalogFeedJob.SendExportRequest(Uri blobId, Uri siteUrl)
   at EPiServer.Recommendations.Commerce.CatalogFeed.CatalogFeedJob.Execute()
   at EPiServer.Scheduler.Internal.DefaultScheduledJobExecutor.<Execute>d__31.MoveNext()

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