[MRM-1072] Unable to download metadata.xml

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.3
• Component/s: browser
• Environment: java 5, linux
• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: Dan Tran
• Created: 22/Jan/09 17:47
• Updated: 11/Mar/09 12:40
• Resolved: 08/Mar/09 16:55

Description

Hello,

I am not able to pull down this file. Any suggestions?

here is error from log
=======================
172.30.63.39 - - [22/Jan/2009:22:41:49 +0000] "GET
/archiva/repository/releases/com/fortinet/fortidb/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml
HTTP/1.1" 500 4434
"http://archiva.fortinet-us.com:7080/archiva/repository/releases/com/fortinet/fortidb/maven/plugins/"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322;
.NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
===============================
here is errror on the browser?

HTTP ERROR: 500
Adding text to an XML document must not be null
RequestURI=/archiva/repository/releases/com/fortinet/fortidb/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml

Caused by:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Adding text to an XML document
must not be null
at org.dom4j.DocumentFactory.createText(DocumentFactory.java:174)
at org.dom4j.tree.AbstractElement.addText(AbstractElement.java:899)
at org.dom4j.tree.AbstractElement.setText(AbstractElement.java:1120)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataWriter.write(RepositoryMetadataWriter.java:77)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataWriter.write(RepositoryMetadataWriter.java:55)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.webdav.ArchivaDavResourceFactory.writeMergedMetadataToFile(ArchivaDavResourceFactory.java:987)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.webdav.ArchivaDavResourceFactory.createResource(ArchivaDavResourceFactory.java:349)
at org.apache.maven.archiva.webdav.RepositoryServlet.service(RepositoryServlet.java:118)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093)
at com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.doFilter(FilterDispatcher.java:189)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:39)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
at com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.ActionContextCleanUp.doFilter(ActionContextCleanUp.java:88)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:722)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:404)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:206)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:828)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380)
at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395)
at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:450)

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Hey Dan,
Archiva is trying to merge the metadata file with the existing metadata on your file system (if there is any).

What version of Archiva is this? From memory, the repository metadata writer class got a good rewrite in trunk. Can you file an issue?

Thanks
James

Issue Links

• is superceded by: MRM-907 Remove VersionedReference/ProjectReference/ArtifactReference from RepositoryProxyConnectors