Records management record cut-off and automatic destruction

aw560 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:43:56 GMT

I'm having trouble getting record cut-off and automatic destruction working with the Alfresco records management module.I'm using the Alfresco 2.1.0 community tomcat bundle and version 2.1.0 of the records management AMP, i.e.alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0.zip from http://sourceforge.net/project/sh

Re: Records management record cut-off and automatic destruction

aw560 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:08:29 GMT

Further to my original post, Alfresco 2.1 with the additional Records Management module seems to be very broken with regard to the cut-off and automatic document destruction functionality.

Alfresco 2.9B Community tomcat bundle (available here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=157460) using the latest version of the Records Management module available from the SVN repository (https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD) is slightly less broken.

If you extract Alfresco, install the records management module, create a file plan space, then attempt to add destroy instructions, an error will appear on the web interface:

javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Exception while invoking expression #{org_alfresco_module_RecordsManagement_ActionListener.executeScript}
caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException

and in the alfresco.log log file:

10:01:23,375 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco].[Faces Servlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at org.alfresco.module.recordsManagement.ui.RecordsManagementActionListener.executeScript(RecordsManagementActionListener.java:100)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.myfaces.el.MethodBindingImpl.invoke(MethodBindingImpl.java:132)
   at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:89)
   at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastForPhase(UIViewRoot.java:97)
   at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:171)
   at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationExecutor.execute(InvokeApplicationExecutor.java:32)
   at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:95)
   at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:70)
   at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:139)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AuthenticationFilter.java:81)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
   at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
   at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

If you return to the application you will notice that the 'Destroy Instructions' has been added to the file plan.

Modify the file plan, fill in the required fields and check the 'Process Cutoff' check box. Add some content to the space and specify a cut off date, roll the system time forward to the next day and have a look at the content you just created in the file plan. The record will be flagged as cutoff, but will still remain in the space, and an error will have been logged to alfresco.log:

10:16:00,109 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.action.AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl] Failed to execute asynchronous action: Action[ id=034ffe70-32e0-11dd-9c34-65a0c42add28, node=null ]
org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'org.alfresco.module.recordsManagement.action.DestroyDispositionAction' is defined
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:340)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedBeanDefinition(AbstractBeanFactory.java:906)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:242)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:161)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:642)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.directActionExecution(ActionServiceImpl.java:536)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.executeActionImpl(ActionServiceImpl.java:472)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl$ActionExecutionWrapper$1.execute(AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl.java:258)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:236)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:166)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl$ActionExecutionWrapper.run(AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl.java:267)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

To get rid of the first exception modify RecordsManagementActionListener.java, which can be found in HEAD\root\modules\records-mgmt\source\java\org\alfresco\module\recordsManagement\ui

Edit lines 94 and 100, which both contain the same code:


comp.getChildren().clear();
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change this to:


if(null != comp) {
    comp.getChildren().clear();
}
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To fix the second exception you will need to modify RecordsManagementScript.java, which can be found in HEAD\root\modules\records-mgmt\source\java\org\alfresco\module\recordsManagement

Edit line 54:


public static final String DESTROY_DISPOSITION_ACTION = "org.alfresco.module.recordsManagement.action.DestroyDispositionAction";
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change this to:


public static final String DESTROY_DISPOSITION_ACTION = "org_alfresco_module_RecordsManagement_destroyDispositionAction";
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After rebuilding the module and applying it to Alfresco 2.9B, Records Management with scheduled cut-off and record destruction should be working.

Re: Records management record cut-off and automatic destruction

kiem_tra — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:54:26 GMT

Hey!

Thanks aw560, this is exaclty why i was looking for. My only problem (i'm quite new with Alfresco) is that i can't find the path you talk about (HEAD\root\modules\records-mgmt\source\java\org\alfresco\module\recordsManagement\) Where the hell are the java files? In the amp package? There aren't in the tomcat folder for sure. Can someone help?

I'll continue searching and will post when i'll have a solution.

I'm using Alfresco 3.0 with Records Management 2.1.

Thank you!

Pierre

Re: Records management record cut-off and automatic destruction

kiem_tra — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:51:18 GMT

Allright. The source files are available in SVN. Seems obvious when you know.

Another question: Do I have to set up the entire SDK structure to rebuild the Record-Management module or can I rebuild the module independently?

And… is it me or there is few documentation about RM (for dev). The Records Management User Guide is helpful for a user, but not for a developper. If someone has good links, help me out!

Thank you!

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