[MOBY-dev] Problem with dashboard to list services

[Andreas Groscurth]

ohoh - that was my service... at least kind of - i tested the problem we 
discussed last time with the umlaut etc.

I'm sorry - i totally forgot that service :(


Andreas

Edward Kawas wrote:
> Okay, I found the culprit and I have fixed it. It was a the service
> simpleTest under the authority mpiz-koeln.mpg.de.
>
> I will also deploy patches to the test registry to see if we can trap these
> errors in the future.
>
> Eddie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org
> [mailto:moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Martin Senger
> Sent: September-10-08 11:28 AM
> To: Core developer announcements
> Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] Problem with dashboard to list services
>
>   
>> Fault string: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte
>>     
> UTF-8
>   
>> sequence.
>>     
>
>
> This seems to be a re-occurrence of the same problem that we were solving
> couple of months ago with a service from Germany. In that case, the problem
> was caused by using non-ascii characters (such as German umlaut characters)
> in the service description. The problem was (and I guess still is, with your
> services) has two parts:
>
> First, jMoby (in Dashboard but also in any other usage og its libraries) may
> send a wrong Unicode characters. This is probably a bug in my libraries. I
> should fix it.
>
> Second, BioMoby central registry accepts wrong Unicode characters, stores
> them in its database and sends back them as an invalid XML. This should be
> fixed by Eddie or Mark I guess.
>
> If I am correct and your situation is indeed the one I am describing, it is
> a very dangerous situation because by registering a service with such
> description *all* jMoby users around the world will be affected (their
> Dashboards, for example, will not be able to reload or update anymore -
> until Eddie manually fixes the descriptions in the registry database; that's
> how he fixed it last time).
>
> Martin
>
>   


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