Voting in a Confluence Answers

Jonas Andersson

Hi,

We are experimenting around with "Questions" for Confluence, and would like to be able to create a question that consists of a vote with 3 options.. Is that possible somehow?

I get to insert the vote macro, but when trying to vote Questions shows a "There was a problem casting a vote. Returned status: error, error: Internal Server Error"

When editing the property of the vote macro, it shows error:

"There is no metadata configured for this macro which means no configuration screen can be presented here.

If this is a user macro then you can add metadata to the template using the User Macro Administration console."

 

Catalina.out:

2016-01-05 15:43:56,763 ERROR [http-bio-8091-exec-39322] [common.error.jersey.ThrowableExceptionMapper] toResponse Uncaught exception thrown by REST service: com.atlassian.confluence.content.CustomContentEntityObject cannot be cast to com.atlassian.confluence.pages.AbstractPage
 -- url: /rest/surveyplugin/1.0/pages/38742108/votes | userName: <myname> | referer: https://<ourconfluence>/questions/38741965/answers/38742108?flashId=507343721
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.atlassian.confluence.content.CustomContentEntityObject cannot be cast to com.atlassian.confluence.pages.AbstractPage
    at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.persistence.dao.hibernate.HibernateAbstractPageDao.getAbstractPageById(HibernateAbstractPageDao.java:41)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor925.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:307)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:182)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:149)
    at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:106)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:204)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy57.getAbstractPageById(Unknown Source)
    at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.DefaultPageManager.getAbstractPage(DefaultPageManager.java:187)
    at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.DefaultPageManager.getById(DefaultPageManager.java:204)
    at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.DefaultPageManager.getById(DefaultPageManager.java:77)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor800.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

 

UPDATED:

The vote plugin we are using is: Survey and Vote Macros 2.9.2.

To reproduce:

1. create a new question. Add a question in "Ask a question"-box
2. in the rich text editor, we add

{vote}

3. Clicking on the box, and clicking the edit button results in the error:

No Macro Metadata

There is no metadata configured for this macro which means no configuration screen can be presented here.

If this is a user macro then you can add metadata to the template using the User Macro Administration console.

 

Steven F Behnke

No one can possibly know what votemacro you're referring to, since you've quite clearly indicated it's a custom User Macro. Also, I am not positive your two errors are connected in any way, shape, or form. Confluence complains about meta data if you don't define any, in a custom user macro. If you haven't completed the requirements, it will complain. Now, your server error is different - com.atlassian.confluence.content.CustomContentEntityObject cannot be cast to com.atlassian.confluence.pages.AbstractPage The code is bad. It's not doing something that's possible. Perhaps this works on Pages but not Questions, is that what's wrong?