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java.net error URISyntaxException:Illegal character in path at index 0 occurred during the export process

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Kanchan Bisht

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Issue

  • While exporting web content, users keep running into errors, but the export is still successful despite the number of errors.

  • Steps to reproduce:
    1) Startup DXP 7.3 u23
    2) Create a structure with 'text', 'image', and 'Link to page' fields
    3) Create web content from this structure and one basic web content
    4) Navigate to publication> Export and try to export
    Expected Behavior: The export process is successful.
    Observed Behavior: The export process is successful with the following errors 

    ERROR [liferay/background_task-4][HttpComponentsUtil:390] null
com.liferay.portal.kernel.log.LogSanitizerException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 0: <?xml version="1.0"?>__<root available-locales="en_US"default-locale="en_US" version="1.0">_       <dynamic-element index-type="" instance-id="EEyvJHNl" name="FieldsGroup58466005" type="fieldset">_              <dynamic-element index-type="keyword" instance-id="sV5xg7Z4" name="Text79630757" type="text">_                      <dynamic-content language-id="en_US"><![CDATA[Web Content 3]]></dynamic-content>_           </dynamic-element>_             <dynamic-element index-type="keyword" instance-id="Owl5PNmh" name="Upload42878555" type="document_library">_
                <dynamic-content language-id="en_US"><![CDATA[{"classPK":43000,"groupId":"20123","title":"Asset2.jpg","type":"document","uuid":"bcf76f36-8a35-0278-e7fb-152b1930c169"}]]></dynamic-content>_                </dynamic-element>_             <dynamic-element index-type="keyword" instance-id="0825klPD" name="Numeric40046757" type="numeric">_                        <dynamic-content language-id="en_US"><![CDATA[9999999999]]></dynamic-content>_          </dynamic-element>_             <dynamic-element index-type="keyword" instance-id="NaxVSjAw" name="LinkToPage94792237" type="link_to_layout">_                      <dynamic-content language-id="en_US"><![CDATA[{"groupId":20123,"id":"e59a41e7-e366-73fd-c1b7-f825def8ef8a","layoutId":"2","name":"Pages > Home","privateLayout":false,"value":"\/home"}]]></dynamic-content>_               </dynamic-element>_ </dynamic-element>_</root> [Sanitized]
        at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2848) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
        at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3021) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
        at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3105) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
        at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3063) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
        at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:588) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.HttpComponentsUtil.getURI(HttpComponentsUtil.java:455) ~[portal-kernel.jar:?]
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.HttpComponentsUtil.getProtocol(HttpComponentsUtil.java:387) [portal-kernel.jar:?]
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.HttpComponentsUtil.hasProtocol(HttpComponentsUtil.java:476) [portal-kernel.jar:?]

     

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4 update 23

Resolution

  • The observed errors are the result of a known bug that was addressed in DXP 7.4 update 26.

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