Activity Stream Breaks due to InvalidCharacterException
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
When attempting to view the Activity Stream, the below error is shown:
The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:
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2012-08-02 15:52:24,181 http-8080-4 ERROR pirateman 952x1497x1 1x45sii 127.0.0.1 /plugins/servlet/streams [streams.internal.servlet.StreamsActivityServlet] Error sending feed
org.apache.abdera.i18n.iri.IRISyntaxException: org.apache.abdera.i18n.text.InvalidCharacterException: Invalid Character 0x25(%)
at org.apache.abdera.i18n.iri.IRI.parseAuthority(IRI.java:549)
at org.apache.abdera.i18n.iri.IRI.parse(IRI.java:565)
at org.apache.abdera.i18n.iri.IRI.<init>(IRI.java:64)
at org.apache.abdera.parser.stax.FOMIRI.setValue(FOMIRI.java:63)
at org.apache.abdera.parser.stax.FOMPerson.setUri(FOMPerson.java:150)
at com.atlassian.streams.internal.atom.abdera.AbderaAtomFeedRenderer$AtomFeedBuilder.buildPerson(AbderaAtomFeedRenderer.java:390)
at com.atlassian.streams.internal.atom.abdera.AbderaAtomFeedRenderer$AtomFeedBuilder.buildAuthors(AbderaAtomFeedRenderer.java:368)
at com.atlassian.streams.internal.atom.abdera.AbderaAtomFeedRenderer$AtomFeedBuilder.getAtomEntry(AbderaAtomFeedRenderer.java:230)
at com.atlassian.streams.internal.atom.abdera.AbderaAtomFeedRenderer$AtomFeedBuilder.build(AbderaAtomFeedRenderer.java:162)
at com.atlassian.streams.internal.atom.abdera.AbderaAtomFeedRenderer.writeFeed(AbderaAtomFeedRenderer.java:100)
at com.atlassian.streams.internal.servlet.StreamsActivityServlet.doGet(StreamsActivityServlet.java:85)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.DelegatingPluginServlet.service(DelegatingPluginServlet.java:42)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.ServletModuleContainerServlet.service(ServletModuleContainerServlet.java:52)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.steps.ChainedFilterStepRunner.doFilter(ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.HeaderSanitisingFilter.doFilter(HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.IteratingFilterChain.doFilter(IteratingFilterChain.java:46)
at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.DelegatingPluginFilter$1.doFilter(DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.applinks.core.rest.context.ContextFilter.doFilter(ContextFilter.java:25)
...
Caused by: org.apache.abdera.i18n.text.InvalidCharacterException: Invalid Character 0x25(%)
at org.apache.abdera.i18n.text.CodepointIterator$RestrictedCodepointIterator.next(CodepointIterator.java:476)
at org.apache.abdera.i18n.text.CharUtils.verify(CharUtils.java:820)
at org.apache.abdera.i18n.text.CharUtils.verify(CharUtils.java:838)
at org.apache.abdera.i18n.iri.IRI.parseAuthority(IRI.java:547)
... 130 more
Cause
This problem may happen due to either of the causes below:
There is an underscore in the Base URL and the following bug is happening: JRASERVER-41887 - Base URL with underscore breaks the Activity Stream
There is another invalid character within the Base URL.
Resolution
Modify that the Base URL (as in Configuring JIRA Options) so that it does not contain the invalid character, as listed in the stack trace. In this example it was caused by the following URL and fixed by changing it to http://jira.atlassian.com.
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