MarkView All Components - Verify fails with Malformed \uxxxx encoding error

Applies To

• ERP System: SAP
• MarkView Version: MarkView 6.4

Behavior

• MarkView Verify fails with an error similar to the following reported in the log files:

  2010-02-18 12:04:12,500 FATAL com.markview.installer.InstallerType Error while running installer
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \uxxxx encoding.
      at java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Unknown Source) at java.util.Properties.load(Unknown Source)
      at com.markview.installer.TargetRegistryManager.getPropertiesFromTRS(TargetRegistryManager.java:877)
      at com.markview.installer.InstallerType.loadTargetRegistry(InstallerType.java:311)
      at com.markview.installer.InstallerType.loadTargetRegistry(InstallerType.java:281)
      at com.markview.installer.InstallerType.runInstaller(InstallerType.java:1250)
      at com.markview.installer.InstallerVerify.main(InstallerVerify.java:51)

Known Causes

• This error occurs because of URL values stored within the mv_target_registry table that contain the '\' character.

Resolution

• Run the following query to identify the problematic URLs:

  select name_attribute,value from mv_target_registry where lower(value) like '%\%';

• Run the following update statement to correct the issue:
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  update mv_target_registry set value = replace(value,'\','/') where lower(value) like '%\%';

Keywords: mal-formed, encode