Tuesday, 20 January 2015

BPM12c: Patch for 'ora:getAttachmentProperty: Failed to decode properties string '

Last december I reported running into a problem getting attachments and attachments properties in this blog-post. I created a Service Request for it and last week it resulted in a one-off patch:

  • Patch 18511990 VITAL INFORMATION LOST WHEN RECEIVING EMAILS WITH CONTENT-TYPE MULTIPART/RELATED (Patch)
Because there are multiple versions available for download, you should make sure to download the appropriate version; in my case it was 12.1.3.


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2 comments:

  1. Vaibhav Saraogi29 January 2015 at 14:28

    Hi,

    I too tried using ora:getAttachmentProperty. And the error which I get is weird. I am not able to understand possible reason for it. Can you please help-

    What I am trying to do - Currently able to save attachment to disk however I want to save attachment with same name which came in email.

    Error thrown by SOA server is

    XPath expression failed to execute.
    An error occurs while processing the XPath expression; the expression is ora:getAttachmentProperty('Content-Description',$Receive1_ReceiveNotification_InputVariable.body/ns3:attachment[$counter]/@href).
    The XPath expression failed to execute; the reason was: java.lang.ClassCastException: oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLAttr cannot be cast to java.lang.String.
    Check the detailed root cause described in the exception message text and verify that the XPath query is correct.


    **$counter used in expression is to loop through multiple attachments.

    Any help would be appreciated. :)

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  2. Martien van den Akker29 January 2015 at 19:17

    Hi Vaibhav,

    I think it's in the fact that you added '/@href' to the xpath. Can you try without it?
    The input of the function is the attachment object where it interprets it by getting the attribute.

    Regards,
    Martien

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