Error listing nodes with Content WebService 16.2.0

vgavrila

When calling DocumentManagement.listNodes() for a container sometimes the following error is thrown:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Method getLocalName() cannot be called for CHARACTERS event.at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.getLocalName(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:366)at com.sun.xml.ws.util.xml.XMLStreamReaderFilter.getLocalName(XMLStreamReaderFilter.java:164) at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.verifyTag(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:213)at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.verifyTag(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:222)at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.ResponseBuilder$DocLit.readResponse(ResponseBuilder.java:524) at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:121) at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:89) at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SEIStub.invoke(SEIStub.java:118)

at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy37.listNodes(Unknown Source)

The error is thrown because there is one or more unprintable character in one of the sub nodes metadata so they are not escaped in the response SOAP message. In this case the return XML is invalid and cannot be parsed by the generated stub.

Does anyone know a solution/patch for this issue?

Thanks!

Vasile.

Greg Griffiths

I would recommend :

1. Checking with OT Support who may have a patch.
2. Performing a DB query to see how many of these characters are in your system and remove them
3. Understand where they came from e.g. xECM interface, REST etc so you can mitigate the issue going forward.