Gel Script not working after Upgrade to v15.8.1
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Issue/Introduction
Some Gel Scripts working in 15.8.0 fail after upgrade to 15.8.1.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. Create a process
2. Create a process step which runs the following gel script (also attached as .txt here)
<gel:script
xmlns:gel="jelly:com.niku.union.gel.GELTagLibrary"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:core="jelly:core"
xmlns:sql="jelly:sql"
xmlns:util="jelly:util"
xmlns:xog="http://www.niku.com/xog"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<!-- Create the xog client -->
<core:new className="com.niku.xog.client.XOGClientInterface" var="XOGAdminClient"/>
<!-- Get the Clarity Version for XML Header -->
<core:invokeStatic className="com.niku.union.config.ConfigurationManager" method="getInstance" var="thisClarityConfig"/>
<core:set value="${thisClarityConfig.getVersionProperty('version')}" var="ClarityVersion"/>
<gel:log>Clarity version: ${ClarityVersion}</gel:log>
<!-- *** Project XML Creation *** -->
<gel:parse var="xml">
<NikuDataBus xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../xsd/nikuxog_project.xsd">
<Header action="write" externalSource="NIKU" objectType="project" version="${ClarityVersion}"/>
<Projects>
<!-- insert the project tag here -->
</Projects>
</NikuDataBus>
</gel:parse>
<!--Create XML for Project -->
<gel:parse var="Project">
<Project name="Test" projectID="test123456">
<Tasks>
<!-- insert the task tag here -->
</Tasks>
</Project>
</gel:parse>
<!-- Create XML for task -->
<gel:parse var="Task">
<Task finish="2020-12-31T17:00:00" internalTaskID="5078120" milestone="false" name="Test" outlineLevel="1" start="2020-06-01T00:00:00" status="0" taskID="~rmw">
<estimateRules />
</Task>
</gel:parse>
<gel:set insert="true" select="$Project//Tasks" value="${Task}"/>
<gel:set insert="true" select="$xml/NikuDataBus/Projects" value="${Project}"/>
<gel:log>XML: <gel:expr select="$xml"/></gel:log>
<gel:log>Project/Task XML To be XOGGED:<gel:expr select="$xml"/> </gel:log>
<!-- Send the XOG request to Clarity -->
<core:invoke method="invoke" on="${XOGAdminClient}" var="xogResponse">
<core:arg type="java.lang.String" value="xoguser"/>
<core:arg type="org.w3c.dom.Document" value="${xml}"/>
</core:invoke>
<!-- Print the read response of XOG -->
<gel:log>Response: <gel:expr select="$xogResponse"/> </gel:log>
</gel:script>
3. connect the step, validate, activate and run the process.
Expected results: Process with the gel script to run successfully as it was in PPM 15.8.0 and older releases.
Actual results: Process fails with gel tag exceptions captured in BPM errors and BG-ca.logs:--
BPM-0704: An error occurred while executing custom script: org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: null:32:68: <gel:set> Missing or invalid XML at com.niku.union.gel.tags.SetTag.doTag(SetTag.java:137) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:248) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:96) at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:187) at com.niku.union.gel.tags.ScriptTag.doTag(ScriptTag.java:20) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:248) at com.niku.union.gel.GELScript.run(GELScript.java:58) at com.niku.union.gel.GELController.invoke(GELController.java:74) at com.niku.bpm.services.ExecuteCustomAction.run(ExecuteCustomAction.java:207) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
Caused by: org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: null:-1:-1: <null> <gel:set> attribute 'select' $Project//Tasks does not refer to an existing node. at com.niku.union.gel.tags.SetTag.doTag(SetTag.java:73) ... 11 more Root cause org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: null:-1:-1: <null> <gel:set> attribute 'select' $Project//Tasks does not refer to an existing node. at com.niku.union.gel.tags.SetTag.doTag(SetTag.java:73) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:248) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:96) at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:187) at com.niku.union.gel.tags.ScriptTag.doTag(ScriptTag.java:20) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:248) at com.niku.union.gel.GELScript.run(GELScript.java:58) at com.niku.union.gel.GELController.invoke(GELController.java:74) at com.niku.bpm.services.ExecuteCustomAction.run(ExecuteCustomAction.java:207) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
Cause
This is due to DE56573 related to Gel tags with invalid namespaces
Environment
CLARITY 15.8.1
Resolution
DE56573 is tentatively planned to be fixed in 15.9. It is also patched in 15.8.1 patch 2.
Workaround:
Remove gel namespace from gel header.
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
In prior Clarity releases even if there was such namespace references the same would not error out but in 15.8.1 this fails
Examples of valid namespace references in gel scripts..
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:core="jelly:core"
xmlns:sql="jelly:sql"
xmlns:util="jelly:util"
Note:
With valid parse tag the system maps namespace to the valid library. The gel parse tag gel parse relaxes the incorrect namespace reference.
For example xmlns:xyz="jelly:com.niku.union.gel.GELTagLibrary"
....
....
<xyz:parse var="xml">
<NikuDataBus xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../xsd/nikuxog_project.xsd">
<Header action="write" externalSource="NIKU" objectType="project" version="${ClarityVersion}"/>
<Projects>
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