Editing JOBS objects using AWI v12 results in "Error during XRequest" message

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

Error Message :
Error during XRequest com.uc4.webui.communication.requests.OpenObjectAdapter

Editing some of the JOBS objects from the Automic Web Interface (AWI) v12 results in the popup error message as shown above.

From the Stack trace the following errors can also be seen.

Object view could not be loaded.
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java.lang.NullPointerException
com.uc4.ecc.ae.commons.content.uc4objectview.UC4ObjectContext.toObjectReference(UC4ObjectContext.java:116) com.uc4.ecc.ae.commons.content.uc4objectview.UC4ObjectPresenter.load(UC4ObjectPresenter.java:792) com.uc4.ecc.ae.commons.content.uc4objectview.UC4ObjectPresenter.access$200(UC4ObjectPresenter.java:92) com.uc4.ecc.ae.commons.content.uc4objectview.UC4ObjectPresenter$3.loadWithNullAsDefault(UC4ObjectPresenter.java:686) com.uc4.ecc.ae.commons.content.uc4objectview.UC4ObjectPresenter$3.loadWithNullAsDefault(UC4ObjectPresenter.java:682) com.uc4.webui.common.async.NullAsDefaultLoader.load(NullAsDefaultLoader.java:10) com.uc4.webui.common.async.NullAsDefaultLoader.load(NullAsDefaultLoader.java:6) com.uc4.ecc.framework.core.async.BaseRequestCoordinator$1$1.call(BaseRequestCoordinator.java:214) com.uc4.ecc.framework.core.pool.ContextAwareExecutorService$CallableImplementation.call(ContextAwareExecutorService.java:72) java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) 

Environment

Release: AUTWAB99000-12.0-Automic Workload Automation-Base Edition
Component:

Cause

The issue is coming from a corrupted export file which could be cause by exporting using the old AE API or ECC. There were several issues with the export/import function which were corrected in v12.

Resolution

Workaround :
When you open the export.xml you find the following lines where the closing tag is missing
 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><!DOCTYPE Content [ <!ELEMENT Content ( #PCDATA ) > ]> <Content>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mars_demoulas_

If you add this ending tag and re-import the object you can then open it in the AWI as well. Syntax with the closing tag added:
 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><!DOCTYPE Content [ <!ELEMENT Content ( #PCDATA ) > ]> <Content>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mars_demoulas_</Content>

Re-transporting the affected object by itself has also been shown to resolve this issue on a per-object basis.