Create / Edit Button of Composition table is throwing exception in V7

Hi
I have created a new Editor screen in the latest version of the CUBA Studio. The Purchase Requisition screen has composition Entity of “PurchaseRequisitionVendor”.

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In the previous version of studio, these Create or Edit buttons of the PurchaseRequisitionVendor (as you see in the image) used to open up the Editor screen of “PurchaseRequisitionVendor” without writing any addition code but in the new version, I am getting the following exception. Is it a bug or I need to write the necessary code to call the editor screen?

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.builders.EditorBuilderProcessor.setupParentDataContext(EditorBuilderProcessor.java:330)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.builders.EditorBuilderProcessor.buildEditor(EditorBuilderProcessor.java:93)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.builders.EditorBuilder.build(EditorBuilder.java:359)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.actions.list.EditAction.actionPerform(EditAction.java:143)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.gui.components.WebButton.buttonClicked(WebButton.java:62)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.widgets.CubaButton.fireClick(CubaButton.java:76)
	at com.vaadin.ui.Button$1.click(Button.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor523.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.vaadin.server.ServerRpcManager.applyInvocation(ServerRpcManager.java:153)
	at com.vaadin.server.ServerRpcManager.applyInvocation(ServerRpcManager.java:115)
	at com.vaadin.server.communication.ServerRpcHandler.handleInvocation(ServerRpcHandler.java:431)
	at com.vaadin.server.communication.ServerRpcHandler.handleInvocations(ServerRpcHandler.java:396)
	at com.vaadin.server.communication.ServerRpcHandler.handleRpc(ServerRpcHandler.java:260)
	at com.vaadin.server.communication.UidlRequestHandler.synchronizedHandleRequest(UidlRequestHandler.java:82)
	at com.vaadin.server.SynchronizedRequestHandler.handleRequest(SynchronizedRequestHandler.java:40)
	at com.vaadin.server.VaadinService.handleRequest(VaadinService.java:1577)
	at com.vaadin.server.VaadinServlet.service(VaadinServlet.java:425)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.sys.CubaApplicationServlet.serviceAppRequest(CubaApplicationServlet.java:329)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.sys.CubaApplicationServlet.service(CubaApplicationServlet.java:215)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:742)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
	at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
	at org.springframework.web.filter.CompositeFilter$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(CompositeFilter.java:107)
	at org.springframework.web.filter.CompositeFilter.doFilter(CompositeFilter.java:73)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.sys.CubaHttpFilter.doFilter(CubaHttpFilter.java:108)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:198)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:493)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:650)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:800)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:806)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1498)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

The above Exception has been occured where the composition Entity screen is developed in legacy studio. When I replaced that screen with a new screen created in platform version 7, I get the following exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to create screen erp$PurchaseRequisitionVendor.edit with type FRAGMENT
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.sys.WebScreens.createScreen(WebScreens.java:177)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.sys.WebScreens.create(WebScreens.java:171)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.builders.EditorBuilderProcessor.createScreen(EditorBuilderProcessor.java:286)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.builders.EditorBuilderProcessor.buildEditor(EditorBuilderProcessor.java:88)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.builders.EditorBuilder.build(EditorBuilder.java:359)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.gui.actions.list.EditAction.actionPerform(EditAction.java:143)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.gui.components.WebButton.buttonClicked(WebButton.java:62)
	at com.haulmont.cuba.web.widgets.CubaButton.fireClick(CubaButton.java:76)
	at com.vaadin.ui.Button$1.click(Button.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor609.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.vaadin.server.ServerRpcManager.applyInvocation(ServerRpcManager.java:153)
	at com.vaadin.server.ServerRpcManager.applyInvocation(ServerRpcManager.java:115)

Most likely, this screen is registered in screens.xml file. Try to remove it from screens.xml.

Yes!! it was in the web-screens.xml file. After removing its working. Now wondering why it was in that file!!

Because you’ve changed an old screen. New screens are registered using annotations instead of entries in config.

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