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  2. CONFCLOUD-23645

OutOfMemoryError with Remote API addAttachment service

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      NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding bug report.

      Confluence CLI is being used, but it doesn't do much other than call the addAttachment Remote API service. The documentation says:

      Note that this uses a lot of memory - about 4 times the size of the attachment.

      Can attach files around 3 MBs, but problems when larger files. 13 MBs fails (see https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CSOAP-114). I attempted 23 MBs with a 4GB java heap size. Same file can be attached via UI fine.

      java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space; nested exception is: 
      	java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
      	at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:222)
      	at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:129)
      	at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:601)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1782)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2938)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
      	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
      	at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395)
      	at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
      	at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
      	at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
      	at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
      	at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
      	at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
      	at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
      	at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
      	at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
      	at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
      	at org.swift.common.soap.confluence.ConfluenceserviceV2SoapBindingStub.addAttachment(ConfluenceserviceV2SoapBindingStub.java:4857)
      	at org.swift.confluence.cli.ConfluenceClient.addAttachment(ConfluenceClient.java:1707)
      	at org.swift.confluence.cli.ConfluenceClient.addAttachment(ConfluenceClient.java:1646)
      	at org.swift.confluence.cli.ConfluenceClient.handleRequest(ConfluenceClient.java:471)
      	at org.swift.common.cli.AbstractRemoteClient.process(AbstractRemoteClient.java:119)
      	at org.swift.common.cli.CliClient.doWork(CliClient.java:225)
      	at org.swift.confluence.cli.ConfluenceClient.main(ConfluenceClient.java:115)
      

      Workaround

      • Attach the file through Confluence interface
      • Use "doattachfile.action" controller using a tool like curl, so your command line would look like:
      curl -F file_0=@<path to file> -F pageId=<confluence page id> -u <username>:<password> "http://Confluence-URL/pages/doattachfile.action"
      

      or,

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              bob.swift@charter.net Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)
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