Which is the full stacktrace of the exception? You should always post the full stacktrace of exceptions.
As a side note , in most of the cases you should upgrade EPiServer.Find.Cms, and nuget will update Find & Find.Framework for you.
Sorry about my confusing comment actually I am asking have you updated this to latest stable update and rebuilt the solution?
And one more thing which Episerver and Find version you are using?
Getting below error after updating episerver.find from 13.0.1 to 13.2.2
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
Line 38: //ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<GenericMedia>().ShouldIndex(x => false);
Line 39:
Line 40: ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<ContentPageBase>().ShouldIndex(x =>
Line 41: {
Line 42: //Start off assuming we'll index this page, but if any of the criteria below are met we'll flag it to not be indexed.
Source File: C:\Episerver\Sites\Heritage\EH Web\EH.Website.v2-MasterLive-Ash-Aug\Heritage.Web.Episerver.Find\SearchConventionInitializationModule.cs Line: 40
Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
Heritage.Web.Episerver.Find.SearchConventionInitializationModule.ConfigureContainer(ServiceConfigurationContext context) in C:\Episerver\Sites\Heritage\EH Web\EH.Website.v2-MasterLive-Ash-Aug\Heritage.Web.Episerver.Find\SearchConventionInitializationModule.cs:40
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.Internal.<>c__DisplayClass4_0.<ConfigureContainer>b__0() +16
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.Internal.ModuleNode.Execute(Action a, String key) +52
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.Internal.ModuleNode.ConfigureContainer(ServiceConfigurationContext context) +100
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationEngine.ConfigureCurrentModules(Boolean final) +177
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationEngine.ExecuteTransition(Boolean continueTransitions) +115
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationEngine.Initialize() +40
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.<>c.<FrameworkInitialization>b__7_0(InitializationEngine e) +9
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationModule.EngineExecute(HostType hostType, Action`1 engineAction) +323
EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationModule.FrameworkInitialization(HostType hostType) +170
EPiServer.Global..ctor() +76
Heritage.Web.Ui.Public.EPiServerApplication..ctor() +42
ASP.global_asax..ctor() +56
[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) +0
System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) +119
System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceDefaultCtor(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) +232
System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) +83
System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) +1117
System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes) +124
System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture) +20
System.Web.HttpRuntime.CreateNonPublicInstance(Type type, Object[] args) +60
System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.GetSpecialApplicationInstance(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context) +263
System.Web.Hosting.PipelineRuntime.InitializeApplication(IntPtr appContext) +296
[HttpException (0x80004005): Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +9922840
System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +90
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +261
It would be easier if you attach a debugger to w3wp and see which is null there. Also it would be interesting to look into
ContentPageBase
ContentIndexer.Instance gives null after updation of episerver.find v13.0.1 to v13.2.2.
You should move your code to apply conventions to Initialize, instead of ConfigureContainer, which is too early. At that point the initialization of ContentIndexer is not completed and it might (and in your case, will), return null.
[InitializableModule]
public class SearchConventionInitializationModule : IConfigurableModule
{
public void Initialize(InitializationEngine context)
{
//ContentIndexer.Instance is null always
ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<ContentPageBase>().ShouldIndex(x =>
{
//Start off assuming we'll index this page, but if any of the criteria below are met we'll flag it to not be indexed.
var shouldIndex = true;
//Ignore expired pages.
if (x.StopPublish != null && x.StopPublish < DateTime.Now)
{
shouldIndex = false;
}
//Ignore pages in the recycle bin.
else if (x.IsDeleted)
//else if (x.ContentLink.ID == ContentReference.WasteBasket.ID ||
//x.Ancestors().Contains(ContentReference.WasteBasket.ID.ToString()))
{
shouldIndex = false;
}
//Ignore pages in admin area (note GetFriendlyUrl() will return the scheme and host name, so can only check if contains this path)
//DM - put this into a web.config or home page area of page paths to ignore.
else if (x.ContentLink.GetFriendlyUrl().Contains("/administration/"))
{
shouldIndex = false;
}
//DM The page should not be indexed, but in some scenarios it might already be indexed, so try to delete it.
//Uncomment with the find batches bit when we think more work needs doing on find.
/*if (!shouldIndex)
{
try
{
ContentIndexer.Instance.Delete(x);
}
catch
{
}
}*/
return shouldIndex;
});
EnableContentAreaIndexing(ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions);
}
/// <summary>
/// This config is picked up on the website starts.
/// The actual ContentIndexer settings here though are used when the Find Content Indexing Job runs.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="context"></param>
public void ConfigureContainer(ServiceConfigurationContext context)
{
}
private void EnableContentAreaIndexing(IContentIndexerConventions conventions)
{
conventions.ShouldIndexInContentAreaConvention = new ContentAreaIndexConvention();
}
public void Uninitialize(InitializationEngine context)
{
//Add uninitialization logic
}
}
Also you should add
[ModuleDependency(typeof(EPiServer.Find.Cms.Module.IndexingModule))]
to make sure your module is initialized after the Find initialization module
ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<ContentPageBase>() threw null reference error after updation of episerver.find to latest version