I wrote a custom BDC model, and it works. I can create a list, look at the items, look at a single item, create external data columns in other lists, etc.
Now I created a content source to index this. When I run a full crawl it errors
Error while crawling LOB contents. ( Object reference not set to an instance of an object. )
My ULS logs have
11/23/2011 13:25:57.60 w3wp.exe (0x0CF4) 0x23C0 SharePoint Server Search Admin Audit 96 Information A full crawl was started on 'Yellow Pages' by domain\dave.lozzi. 026ffd1d-3d5f-4d20-a976-6f23203bd5e9
11/23/2011 13:26:04.14 w3wp.exe (0x1558) 0x0A98 Business Connectivity Services Business Data 9f4d Unexpected 'BDC' BdcServiceApplication logging server side MetadataObjectNotFoundException before marshalling and rethrowing on client side: IEntity could not be found by Entity Namespace = Mine.BDC.YellowPagesModel, Name = FlatFileEntity Stack Trace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.SharedService.EntityAccessor.GetEntityWithNameAndNamespace(String namespace, String name, Guid partitionId, DbSessionWrapper dbSessionWrapper) at Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.SharedService.BdcServiceApplication.<>c__DisplayClassa7.<Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.SharedService.IBdcServiceApplication.GetEntityWithNameAndNamespace>b__a6() at Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.SharedService.BdcServiceApplication.Execute[T](String operationName, UInt32 maxRunningTime, ExecuteDelegate`1 operation)... 8cf8f71c-4df6-49b4-b432-72359bd955e4
11/23/2011 13:26:04.14* w3wp.exe (0x1558) 0x0A98 Business Connectivity Services Business Data 9f4d Unexpected ... ------------------------ 8cf8f71c-4df6-49b4-b432-72359bd955e4
11/23/2011 13:26:04.42 w3wp.exe (0x0DE8) 0x1474 SharePoint Foundation General bqk1 High External List: Lookup of entity namespace 'Mine.BDC.YellowPagesModel', name 'FlatFileEntity' failed. Exception: IEntity could not be found by Entity Namespace = Mine.BDC.YellowPagesModel, Name = FlatFileEntity Stack Trace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.MetadataModel.Static.DataAccess.EntityMaterializer.GetEntityByNameAndNamespace(String namespace, String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.MetadataModel.DatabaseBackedMetadataCatalog.GetEntity(String namespace, String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListDataSource.InitializeByEntityNameAndNamespace(SPWeb webContext) a1e90a47-f50f-4ad3-9c58-37e653773737
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search PHSts dvt6 High SetSTSErrorInfo ErrorMessage = Error from SharePoint site: Entity (External Content Type) cannot be found with Namespace = 'Mine.BDC.YellowPagesModel', Name = 'FlatFileEntity'. hr = 80131600 [sts3util.cxx:5120] d:\office\source\search\native\gather\protocols\sts3\sts3util.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search PHSts dvu0 High STS3::StoreCachedError: Object initialization failed. Message: "Error from SharePoint site: Entity (External Content Type) cannot be found with Namespace = 'Mine.BDC.YellowPagesModel', Name = 'FlatFileEntity'." HR: 80131600 [sts3util.cxx:5214] d:\office\source\search\native\gather\protocols\sts3\sts3util.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search PHSts dvr6 High STS3::COWSList::Initialize: List Id {091787dd-7466-4669-9334-96f20204dd75} Return error to caller, hr=80131600 errorMessage Error from SharePoint site: Entity (External Content Type) cannot be found with Namespace = 'Mine.BDC.YellowPagesModel', Name = 'FlatFileEntity'. [sts3util.cxx:4350] d:\office\source\search\native\gather\protocols\sts3\sts3util.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search PHSts dv6a High CSTS3Accessor::InitURLType: Return error to caller, hr=80131600 [sts3acc.cxx:1995] d:\office\source\search\native\gather\protocols\sts3\sts3acc.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search PHSts dv3t High CSTS3Accessor::InitURLType fails, Url sts4://watspd01:81/siteurl=/siteid={ea53d092-1451-4007-9d63-784ca431f3ef}/weburl=/webid={a3465bf2-e7f3-49f4-837d-d9a604ca49e6}/listid={091787dd-7466-4669-9334-96f20204dd75}, hr=80131600 [sts3acc.cxx:259] d:\office\source\search\native\gather\protocols\sts3\sts3acc.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search PHSts dvb1 High CSTS3Accessor::Init fails, Url sts4://watspd01:81/siteurl=/siteid={ea53d092-1451-4007-9d63-784ca431f3ef}/weburl=/webid={a3465bf2-e7f3-49f4-837d-d9a604ca49e6}/listid={091787dd-7466-4669-9334-96f20204dd75}, hr=80131600 [sts3handler.cxx:312] d:\office\source\search\native\gather\protocols\sts3\sts3handler.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search PHSts dvb2 High CSTS3Handler::CreateAccessorExD: Return error to caller, hr=80131600 [sts3handler.cxx:330] d:\office\source\search\native\gather\protocols\sts3\sts3handler.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 mssdmn.exe (0x1BC0) 0x2368 SharePoint Server Search FilterDaemon e4ye High FLTRDMN: Errorinfo is "Error from SharePoint site: Entity (External Content Type) cannot be found with Namespace = 'Mine.BDC.YellowPagesModel', Name = 'FlatFileEntity'." [fltrsink.cxx:553] d:\office\source\search\native\mssdmn\fltrsink.cxx
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02 w3wp.exe (0x0DE8) 0x18EC SharePoint Foundation General avfx High SOAP exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Entity (External Content Type) cannot be found with Namespace = 'http://watspd01:81', Name = 'New external content type'. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListDataSource.get_Entity() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListDataSource.GetFieldCollectionFromEntity() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListDataSource.ScoutEntityFieldCollectionForViableSPFields(SPFieldCollection fldcollParent, IFieldCollection& fldcoll, Int32[]& rgifldViableSPFields, Int32& cfldViableSPFields, AssociationManager& assocmgr) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCollection.EnsureFieldsFromEntity() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCollection.Undirty() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBaseCollection.GetEnumerator() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SiteDataImpl.GetListXml(XmlTex... fdf78ac6-d2dd-423e-8bed-d319d564a344
11/23/2011 13:26:05.02* w3wp.exe (0x0DE8) 0x18EC SharePoint Foundation General avfx High ...tWriter w, SPWeb spWeb, SPList spList, Boolean ignoreSecurityIfInherit, Int32 schemaVersion) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SiteDataImpl.GetContent(ObjectType objectType, String objectId, String folderUrl, String itemId, Boolean retrieveChildItems, Boolean securityOnly, String& lastItemIdOnPage) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SiteData.GetContent(ObjectType objectType, String objectId, String folderUrl, String itemId, Boolean retrieveChildItems, Boolean securityOnly, String& lastItemIdOnPage) fdf78ac6-d2dd-423e-8bed-d319d564a344
And ideas?
