[UIMA-6225] unable to install a pear package into a directory containing special character like <,> or &

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.10.3SDK
• Fix Version/s: 2.11.0SDK, 3.2.0SDK
• Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Reporter: Serge Démoulin
• Created: 22/Apr/20 07:20
• Updated: 12/May/20 15:52
• Resolved: 12/May/20 15:52

Description

If I try to install the attached pear I got an PackageInstallerException (see under).

The following workaround did not work :
replacing the $main_root with the real path like '/usr/local/tomcat/shared/pipelines/pears/<' produces the same error.

 

 

Caused by: org.apache.uima.pear.tools.PackageInstallerException: The following error occurred during the installation verification of component hello-world-pear-1.2.0: java.io.IOException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/usr/local/tomcat/shared/pipelines/%3C/pears/hello-world-pear-1.2.0/metadata/install.xml; lineNumber: 14; columnNumber: 46; The element type "DESC" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</DESC>".Caused by: org.apache.uima.pear.tools.PackageInstallerException: The following error occurred during the installation verification of component hello-world-pear-1.2.0: java.io.IOException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/usr/local/tomcat/shared/pipelines/%3C/pears/hello-world-pear-1.2.0/metadata/install.xml; lineNumber: 14; columnNumber: 46; The element type "DESC" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</DESC>". at org.apache.uima.pear.tools.PackageBrowser.getInstallationDescriptor(PackageBrowser.java:377) at org.apache.uima.pear.tools.InstallationController.verifyComponentInstallation(InstallationController.java:1092) at org.apache.uima.pear.tools.InstallationController.verifyComponent(InstallationController.java:1993) at org.apache.uima.pear.tools.PackageInstaller.installPackage(PackageInstaller.java:268) at org.apache.uima.pear.tools.PackageInstaller.installPackage(PackageInstaller.java:99)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #39