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Where can I find diagnostics when Activiti Explorer reports 'Deployment Failed'

simontilbrook — Sun, 18 May 2014 12:34:16 GMT

I am using Activititi Explorer to deploy BPMN process definitions but frequently when the deployment fails the only error message displayed in the browser GUI is "Warning" and "Deployment failed - error parsing XML".The only errors I can find in the Tomcat logs are ones such as :May 18, 2014 12:14:5

Re: Where can I find diagnostics when Activiti Explorer reports 'Deployment Failed'

simontilbrook — Sun, 18 May 2014 12:45:34 GMT

In fact it seems it was the namespace that was the issue - changing that to a defined value solved the problem. But my original question stands - is there somewhere I can find details of the XML error discovered during process deployment - or some way of enabling a verbose/tracing mode such that I have some clue where the error lies?

Re: Where can I find diagnostics when Activiti Explorer reports 'Deployment Failed'

jbarrez — Tue, 20 May 2014 08:06:12 GMT

In the Tomcat logs, there should be the root cause of the error, some low level xml parsing error. Isn't that there?

Re: Where can I find diagnostics when Activiti Explorer reports 'Deployment Failed'

harikakosaraju — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:34:19 GMT

Hello, I am facing similar issue, I got the same error in my logs when trying to deploy a process definition. However, I tried after changing the targetNamespace on the process definition. Still the same issue.

@simontilbrook what exactly did you change ?

Re: Where can I find diagnostics when Activiti Explorer reports 'Deployment Failed'

simontilbrook — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:08:14 GMT

I'm afarid I'm not exactly sure what change I made at the time - but the namespaces we currently use with Activiti 5.17 are:

     Element definitions = new Element("definitions", "http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL");
     definitions.addNamespaceDeclaration(Namespace.getNamespace("xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"));
     definitions.addNamespaceDeclaration(Namespace.getNamespace("xsd", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"));
     definitions.addNamespaceDeclaration(Namespace.getNamespace("activiti", "http://activiti.org/bpmn"));
     definitions.addNamespaceDeclaration(Namespace.getNamespace("bpmndi", "http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI"));
     definitions.addNamespaceDeclaration(Namespace.getNamespace("omgdc", "http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC"));
     definitions.addNamespaceDeclaration(Namespace.getNamespace("omgdi", "http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI"));
     definitions.setAttribute("typeLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
     definitions.setAttribute("expressionLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath");
     definitions.setAttribute("targetNamespace", "http://www.activiti.org/test");

i.e.

<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" xmlnsmgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlnsmgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" xmlnscms="http://thomsonreuters.com/pcms" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" targetNamespace="http://www.activiti.org/test">

Hope that helps

Re: Where can I find diagnostics when Activiti Explorer reports 'Deployment Failed'

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:06:06 GMT

I improved to output the root cause of the error parsing XML.
https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/907