Webforms prompting for required fields though all filled out

[bjornl]

Has anyone else experienced the message "Please provide values for all required fields" on the generated web forms, even though all fields have clearly been filled out?

I have this problem on multiple forms of mine, but only on one of my systems. When I set up another alfresco I no longer have this problem. So from what I can see there is either some state that gets stored in some way, or some difference between the two platforms I run the two setups on.

One is Ubuntu, on which it works fine. The other one is a Fedora system.

There is nothing about this in the error log. I attach the xsd definition for one form that has displayed this behaviour below.

  <xs:complexType name="description">
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="newsTitle" type="xs:normalizedString">
        <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>News title</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
      </xs:element>
      <xs:element name="newsContent" type="xs:string">
        <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>News content</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
      </xs:element>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:element name="news">

    <xs:complexType>

      <xs:sequence>
        
        <xs:element type="xs:date" name="createdDate">
          <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>Created Date</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
        </xs:element>

        <xs:element name="descriptionList">
          <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>News Description</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
          <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:element name="description_en" type="myNS:description">
                <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>English</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
              <xs:element name="description_de" type="myNS:description">
                <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>German</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
              <xs:element name="description_fr" type="myNS:description">
                <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>French</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
              <xs:element name="description_it" type="myNS:description">
                <xs:annotation><xs:appinfo><alf:label>Italian</alf:label></xs:appinfo></xs:annotation>
              </xs:element>
            </xs:sequence>
          </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>

      </xs:sequence>

    </xs:complexType>

  </xs:element>
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[bjornl]

Ok I found another entry for this, so if anyone has the same problem and doesn't know what to do about it, read this post, especially the bottom reply.

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=5857&highlight=provide+values+required+fields

Chrs,
Björn

[marcus]

I was getting the same error, and after checking the logs…

19:17:48,770 WARN  [org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container] dispatch: non-fatal xforms error
org.chiba.xml.xforms.exception.XFormsSubmitError: instance submission failed
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.core.Submission.submit(Submission.java:553)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.core.Submission.performDefault(Submission.java:506)
        at org.chiba.xml.events.impl.DefaultXMLEventService.dispatch(DefaultXMLEventService.java:286)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container.dispatch(Container.java:481)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container.dispatch(Container.java:442)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container.dispatch(Container.java:422)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.ui.Submit.handleEvent(Submit.java:217)
        at org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at org.chiba.xml.events.impl.DefaultXMLEventService.dispatch(DefaultXMLEventService.java:269)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container.dispatch(Container.java:481)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container.dispatch(Container.java:442)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container.dispatch(Container.java:422)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.Container.dispatch(Container.java:408)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.ChibaBean.dispatch(ChibaBean.java:429)
        at org.alfresco.web.forms.xforms.XFormsBean.fireAction(XFormsBean.java:385)
        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:585)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.ajax.InvokeCommand.execute(InvokeCommand.java:160)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.ajax.AjaxServlet.service(AjaxServlet.java:142)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: org.chiba.xml.xforms.exception.XFormsException: org.chiba.xml.xforms.exception.XFormsException: java.net.UnknownHostException: mydomain.com.au
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.connector.http.HTTPSubmissionHandler.submit(HTTPSubmissionHandler.java:212)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.core.Submission.submit(Submission.java:548)
        … 36 more
Caused by: org.chiba.xml.xforms.exception.XFormsException: java.net.UnknownHostException: mydomain.com.au
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.connector.http.AbstractHTTPConnector.post(AbstractHTTPConnector.java:237)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.connector.http.HTTPSubmissionHandler.submit(HTTPSubmissionHandler.java:156)
        … 37 more
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: mydomain.com.au
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:507)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:457)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:365)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:238)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:79)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:121)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.open(HttpConnection.java:706)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:386)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:170)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:396)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:324)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.connector.http.AbstractHTTPConnector.execute(AbstractHTTPConnector.java:320)
        at org.chiba.xml.xforms.connector.http.AbstractHTTPConnector.post(AbstractHTTPConnector.java:235)
        … 38 more
19:17:48,784 DEBUG [org.alfresco.web.forms.xforms.XFormsBean] adding event xforms-submit to the event log

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I've been accessing the site through a url defined in my hosts file, it turns out that if it's not a valid host chiba throws an error. Not good.

[kvc]

Marcus:


Please file a bug at http://issues.alfresco.com and we will look into.


Kevin