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Hi,
we have some strange behavior regarding our velocity files in Jira 9:

(1) Parsing Active Objects is not working anymore
For some AOs we have a structure like

import net.java.ao.Entity;
import net.java.ao.schema.NotNull;

public interface NamedEntity extends Entity
{
	//...

    @NotNull
	public Timestamp getCreated();
	public void setCreated(Timestamp timestamp);

	@NotNull
	public String getName();
	public void setName(String name);

	//...
}

public interface Template extends NamedEntity
{
	// Some other data we store
}

In our vm file we are then calling a method to get the Template object and then trying to parse $template.name. This is working just fine <Jira 9. But since Jira 9 it seems that we only can access variables/ getters from the Templates interface itself but not from the extended one because there will just nothing be parsed. This place remains empty in the final web page as if $template.name would return null. However, from debugging I could see that it is not null.
On the other hand, parsing plain Java classes (e.g. grabbing the ao from the db, transforming it into another Java object and using this one in the template) is still working fine.

(2) Not all statements are being processed
In addition, we have some methods in our Java file we call in the vm file (like $action.formatDate($template.created)). But this is not processed at all. Instead just this expression is printed as plain string to the web page. In the same vm file - some lines below - we are again calling this method again. But there it is processed and is throwing a NullPointer, since $template.created is null (even though from debugging I could see that it is not null, so same issue here as stated in (1)). Why is the expression one time ignored and one time processed?

Is somebody else experiencing strange behavior regarding vm files?
Thanks a lot!
Cheers

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