Strange Error writing file with CSSDK

Bill Klish

TeamSite 6.5 SP1
Windows 2003 EE

I have an external task that is being called from a workflow that is based on the CS SDK and getClientForTrusted user method. As bowker has told me in other posts, you need to pass the username into the task to get the client. I have successfully done that. Here is the problem, if I basically make the command line "" in the workflow and run it from a cmd window, everything works correctly and the file is written back into TeamSite.

However, if I put the exact same command line into the wft and have it run normally, I get an exception thrown and the exception's message is null.

Here is the code that is throwing the exception (contents is just a String defined above)

try
{
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(simpFile.getOutputStream(true), "UTF-8");
out.write(contents);
out.close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
logger.error("Failed writing text file: " + ex.getMessage());
throw new IOException("Failed writing text file: " + ex.getMessage());
}

Some notes:
- The file already exists in TeamSite prior to attempting to write it back in. It is owned by the user Administrator (who is the same person running this task)
- The class is being invoked with the JRE provided by interwoven in iw-home/tools/java/jre/bin/java
- Using the JNI connection and the CSLocalFactory

Bowker

You have been bitten by the same bug I was.

Even though you have used "get trusted client" to sign on, the processes running in the background are still running as "system" or some other user. The file actions you are attempting to do are being executed as that user, not as yourself. I'm not sure what the ID is for an external task from a workflow, but as a test, set World:WR on that file (& path?) and see if that works.

I believe you will find this bug will be fixed in 6.7.

Dan Bowker
Northern Trust
Web Publishing Technology