thanks man, gonna work on it
hey @samuel34 am thinking the solution to this issue is the using of the latest openmrs standalone version 2.8, kindly help me understand why i wud need to use the old version yet the new version automatically rectifies this error?
We have implementations that still depend on platform 1.8.2 so they need the fix 
cool man,
thnx
@samuel34 could you be knowing any link or guide on how to setup a server running the affected version and downgrading my reffapp to run platform 1.8.2 coz could not get it from the openmrs website