Details
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    Bug 
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    Resolution: Fixed
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    Major 
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    1.7
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    None
Description
Since this commit https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/workflow-publication/commit/8f08ddc4ad8ff5ee43c195318e31c26b7114242f the workflow service API has a function allowing to start the workflow as target on a given document. This functionality is not exposed in the UI, as far as I remember, but can be called from a script.
However, when trying to call that function from a script with workflow 1.7, the following exception occurs:
class java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at org.xwiki.workflowpublication.internal.DefaultPublicationWorkflow.getMessage(DefaultPublicationWorkflow.java:1293)
    at org.xwiki.workflowpublication.internal.DefaultPublicationWorkflow.startWorkflowAsTarget(DefaultPublicationWorkflow.java:565)
    at org.xwiki.workflowpublication.internal.PublicationWorkflowService.startWorkflowAsTarget(PublicationWorkflowService.java:145)
    at org.xwiki.workflowpublication.internal.PublicationWorkflowService$startWorkflowAsTarget.call(Unknown Source)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:133)
    at Script37.distributeDocument(Script37.groovy:206)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
    at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1215)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1024)
    at groovy.lang.DelegatingMetaClass.invokeMethod(DelegatingMetaClass.java:151)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl$2.invokeMethod(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:327)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.callCurrent(PogoMetaClassSite.java:69)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallCurrent(CallSiteArray.java:52)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:154)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:190)
    at Script37.run(Script37.groovy:315)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:343)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:152)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.macro.script.AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.eval(AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.java:340)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.macro.script.AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.evaluateBlock(AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.java:249)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.macro.script.AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.evaluateBlock(AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.java:194)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.macro.script.AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.evaluateBlock(AbstractJSR223ScriptMacro.java:60)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.macro.script.AbstractScriptMacro.execute(AbstractScriptMacro.java:182)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.macro.script.AbstractScriptMacro.execute(AbstractScriptMacro.java:58)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.transformation.macro.MacroTransformation.transform(MacroTransformation.java:272)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.transformation.DefaultRenderingContext.transformInContext(DefaultRenderingContext.java:183)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.macro.DefaultMacroContentParser.parse(DefaultMacroContentParser.java:112)
    at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.macro.DefaultMacroContentParser.parse(DefaultMacroContentParser.java:82)
    at org.xwiki.contrib.jobmacro.internal.JobMacroJob.runInternal(JobMacroJob.java:111)
    at org.xwiki.job.AbstractJob.runInContext(AbstractJob.java:206)
    at org.xwiki.contrib.jobmacro.internal.JobMacroJob.run(JobMacroJob.java:92)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)