Problem description
This error occurs for new installations of 4.0.3 where, in the setup wizard, the user has opted to install the demo space. And under certain circumstances which the error is caused by a malformed row in the table bodycontent.
However it is not fixed on upgrade, the error remains.
Here are the steps that you can take to reproduce this bug :
- Install a clean instance of Confluence 4.0.3. (Installed by following the setup wizard, and set user management to 'Manage Users and Groups within Confluence')
- Access Browse>Space Directory and there will be an error. The stack trace is as follows :
org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getBodyAsString' in class com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.SpaceDescription$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$f653be5e threw exception java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: The body of this ContentEntityObject ('') was 'BodyType:XHTML' but was expected to be 'BodyType:WIKI' at /templates/spacedirectory.vm[line 62, column 71]
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.handleInvocationException(ASTMethod.java:337)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:284)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:262)
...
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: The body of this ContentEntityObject ('') was 'BodyType:XHTML' but was expected to be 'BodyType:WIKI'
at com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject.getBodyContent(ContentEntityObject.java:169)
at com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject.getBodyAsString(ContentEntityObject.java:206)
at com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject$$FastClassByCGLIB$$96df24d5.invoke(<generated>)
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invoke(MethodProxy.java:149)
at net.sf.hibernate.proxy.CGLIBLazyInitializer.intercept(CGLIBLazyInitializer.java:108)
at com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.SpaceDescription$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$f653be5e.getBodyAsString(<generated>)
... 197 more
Workaround
- Open this URL in your browser: <Confluence-URL>/admin/force-upgrade.action
- Select changeSpaceDescriptionsBodyTypeUpgradeTask in the Upgrade task to run dropdown list.
- Choose Force Upgrade.
Hope This helps!
Bug
Medium
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