Article Number
000036539
Applies To
RSA Product Set: RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle
RSA Version/Condition: 7.0.2 P05
Issue
After upgrading to RSA
Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.0.2 P05, emails from the approval and fulfillment nodes do not get generated and sent for a few of the workflows due to the following error:
URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "; "
You will find the error below in the aveksaServer.log:
ERROR (Worker_actionq#Script Queue - Normal#WPDS_279) [com.aveksa.server.workflow.scripts.nodes.SendEmailThread] Couldn't Send Email to due to:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "; "
at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:192)
at com.aveksa.server.workflow.scripts.nodes.SendEmailThread.getBody(SendEmailThread.java:109)
at com.aveksa.server.workflow.scripts.nodes.SendEmailThread.sendEmail(SendEmailThread.java:146)
at com.aveksa.server.workflow.scripts.nodes.SendEmailThread.sendEmail(SendEmailThread.java:66)
at com.aveksa.server.workflow.scripts.nodes.SendEmailThread.run(SendEmailThread.java:62)
This error is similar to the error seen when the email node contains a percent (%) character as described in article
000036165 - After patching to RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle 7.0.2 P03+, emails are not generated and sent due to the error 'Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern', but the cause is not similar.
Here, the issue is seen even if the email body does not contain any % characters.
Cause
The emails are not sent because the body content is not being encoded and saved; hence, when plain text (without any encoding) is sent in an email, it gets decoded and the exception is thrown.
Another cause for the email not being sent is due to a NullPointerException when either Workflow Variable or Object Attribute is added in the Send Email node.
Resolution
Resolved in RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle 7.0.2 P08.
Workaround
The workaround is to either:
- Save the workflow node which is not generating emails again, or
- Recreate the node after deleting the node which is having issue.
