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Getting Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0xa0 Confluence REST API

Ayaskant Swain

Hi ,

I am getting the below error in Confluence logs while trying to create content in Confluence via it's REST API. I have written a Java client that makes the REST API call to https://<our_confluence_host>/confluence/rest/api/content with json paylaod to craete a page. It uses apache httpclient to make the call.

Below are the http request headers :

request.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");

request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");

HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);

I am getting http status code 500. The Confluence server's application logs prints the below stacktrace. This is an blocker issue for us. Any help is highly appreciated.

I even tried setting "Content-Type" header as "application/json:charset=UTF-8" but taht also did not help.

2018-05-24 10:20:52,760 ERROR [http-nio-8090-exec-8] [rest.api.model.ExceptionConverter] convertServiceException No status code found for exception, converting to internal server error :
-- url: /confluence/rest/api/content | traceId: 8f2a32f5543f5461 | userName: _stagegitportal
org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0xa0
at [Source: com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.restapi.filters.LimitingRequestFilter$1@50455f9c; line: 1, column: 951]
at org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser._constructError(JsonParser.java:1433)
at org.codehaus.jackson.impl.JsonParserMinimalBase._reportError(JsonParserMinimalBase.java:521)
at org.codehaus.jackson.impl.Utf8StreamParser._reportInvalidInitial(Utf8StreamParser.java:2825)
at org.codehaus.jackson.impl.Utf8StreamParser._reportInvalidChar(Utf8StreamParser.java:2819)
at org.codehaus.jackson.impl.Utf8StreamParser._finishString2(Utf8StreamParser.java:1978)
at org.codehaus.jackson.impl.Utf8StreamParser._finishString(Utf8StreamParser.java:1905)
at org.codehaus.jackson.impl.Utf8StreamParser.getText(Utf8StreamParser.java:276)

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Thomas Deiler_db00h3

Dear @Ayaskant Swain,

it seems that the JSON data you send is not correctly encoded. Try

URLEncoder.encode(data,"UTF-8");

before executing the request, Btw: The header seems to be fine,

So long

Thomas

Ayaskant Swain

Hi Thomas,

I tried that but it did not work either :-( . Strangely the same jsonpayload works when i call the API via POSTMAN. Page is created successfully in Confluence.

The POSTMAN sends the below headers.

headers = {
'content-type': "application/json",
'accept': "application/json",
'cache-control': "no-cache",
'postman-token': "34a891d4-52f1-649e-3fff-298f207ac2a5"
}

The "cache-control" and "postman-token" headers have been added by POSTMAN internally. I don't think they are making any difference and should be added in my Java client program.

The json request payload is below:

{\"type\":\"page\",\"title\":\"ECMC TROUBLESHOOTING PROCEDURES_30\",\"space\":{\"key\":\"DEVPROD\"},\"body\":{\"storage\":{\"value\":\"h1. NOT WORKING\\n\\nFor most of the possible problems below, start with these steps.\\n\\n* Check when the config was last updated.\\n* Check to see how long the current config is active.\\n* If the current production config was recently activated, run a diff to compare the current with previous active config.\\n\\nh2. VERIFY_CONFIG_ACTIVATION\\n|| Action || Result ||\\n| \\n# Log in to the ECMC and see if the configuration file containing the digital property having problems was recently changed. \\n# Select View Details and look at the data of the more resent revision pushed to production | \\n# If a recent change was made, the timestamp will be recent, or the configuration may still be propagating to the network. |\\n\\nh2. VERIFY_ORIGIN_IP_CHANGES\\n|| Action |","representation":"wiki"}}}

Thanks

Ayaskant

Thomas Deiler_db00h3

Dear @Ayaskant Swain,

probably its a JVM properties issue - but this is just a wild guess. If you paste the whole class, where you construct the request, I can probably help you debugging.

So long

Thomas

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