I imported my buzilla database into JIRA and could not search on external id field after the import. I was getting the following error in the logs: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.searchers.transformer.FreeTextCustomFieldSearchInputTransformer.validateParams(FreeTextCustomFieldSearchInputTransformer.java:60) Step 1 was to remove the Freetext search from the External ID custom field. I then added the freetext search back to the custom field. I then reindexed and like magic my error went away.
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