Site Searching in Share broke

tbuehrer — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:57:39 GMT

Something happened today and now whenever we try to do a site search we get the following error message:Error during processing of the template 'Expression jsonUtils.encodeJSONString(x) is undefined on line 2, column 23 in org/alfresco/repository/site/site.lib.ftl.'. Please contact your system admin

Re: Site Searching in Share broke

mrogers — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:01:47 GMT

You get these sort of errors when either the freemarker template is corrupt or the object (in this case site) has a missing attribute.

Is it possible that the file "site.lib.ftl" has been modified?

If not then there may be a little more information in the Alfresco.log file that will help with diagnosing this problem.

Re: Site Searching in Share broke

tbuehrer — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:08:07 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion. I did not modify any of the files. The extract from the log is:

Expression jsonUtils.encodeJSONString(x) is undefined on line 2, column 23 in org/alfresco/repository/site/site.lib.ftl.
The problematic instruction:
———-
==> ${site.sitePreset} escaped ${jsonUtils.encodeJSONString(site.sitePreset)} [on line 5, column 41 in org/alfresco/repository/site/site.lib.ftl]
in user-directive siteLib.siteJSON [on line 5, column 17 in org/alfresco/repository/site/sites.get.json.ftl]
———-

Java backtrace for programmers:
———-
freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException: Expression jsonUtils.encodeJSONString(x) is undefined on line 2, column 23 in org/alfresco/repository/site/site.lib.ftl.
   at freemarker.core.TemplateObject.assertNonNull(TemplateObject.java:124)
   at freemarker.core.Expression.getStringValue(Expression.java:118)
   at freemarker.core.Expression.getStringValue(Expression.java:93)
   at freemarker.core.DollarVariable.accept(DollarVariable.java:76)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
   at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
   at freemarker.core.EscapeBlock.accept(EscapeBlock.java:84)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
   at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
   at freemarker.core.UnifiedCall.accept(UnifiedCall.java:106)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
   at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
   at freemarker.core.IteratorBlock$Context.runLoop(IteratorBlock.java:179)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:415)
   at freemarker.core.IteratorBlock.accept(IteratorBlock.java:102)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
   at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
   at freemarker.core.Environment.process(Environment.java:188)
   at freemarker.template.Template.process(Template.java:237)
   at org.alfresco.repo.template.FreeMarkerProcessor.process(FreeMarkerProcessor.java:201)
   at org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractWebScript.renderTemplate(AbstractWebScript.java:377)
   at org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeWebScript.renderFormatTemplate(DeclarativeWebScript.java:280)
   at org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeWebScript.execute(DeclarativeWebScript.java:173)
   at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$1.execute(RepositoryContainer.java:309)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:294)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:209)
   at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecute(RepositoryContainer.java:320)
   at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.executeScript(RepositoryContainer.java:264)
   at org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:240)
   at org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:139)
   at org.alfresco.web.scripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:116)
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.MTWebScriptAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(MTWebScriptAuthenticationFilter.java:102)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
   at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
   at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$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)

I presume that there is a faulty attribute, but which one and how does one fix it?

Thanks.

Tim

Re: Site Searching in Share broke

smac — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:21:12 GMT

I've run into the same problem and discovered the following:

I created a new site under the alfresco interface (http://localhost:8080/alfresco) then logged into the alfresco share interface (http://localhost:8080/share), and tried to add the newly created site to my dashboard by searching for it. Doing this threw up the same error as above.

When I logged back into the alfresco interface and removed the newly created site, then went back to the share interface and performed another search - the search function worked properly.

It seems that if I create new sites under the share interface, I'm able to search for them without issues, but as soon as I create one under the alfresco interface, it spits out the same error every time.

Re: Site Searching in Share broke

mikeh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:02:16 GMT

Creating sites form the Alfresco Explorer (/alfresco) interface isn't supported, because - as you have discovered - they will be missing vital attributes.

There's a warning when entering the "sites" space that the area should only be accessed using the Share interface - although you may have a very early build that didn't have this warning.

Mike

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