IZ86402: JAVA.BEANS.XMLENCODER/DECODER FAILS TO PROCESS INVALID CHARS

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Error Message: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1) was found
  in the element content of the document of encoding results.
  .
  Stack Trace: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML
  character (Unicode: 0x1) was found in the element content of the
  document.
   at
  org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseExcepti
  on(Unknown Source)
   at
  org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown
  Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown
  Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown
  Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown
  Source)
   at
  org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentCo
  ntentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
   at
  org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocume
  nt(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
  Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
  Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown
  Source)
   at
  org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown
  Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
   at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at java.beans.XMLDecoder.readObject(XMLDecoder.java:629)
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• The problem is caused when a string with invalid characters is
  encoded and decoded using java.beans.XMLEncoder and
  java.beans.XMLDecoder.
  

Problem conclusion

• This defect will be fixed in:
  6.0.0 SR9
  .
  XMLEncoder and XMLDecoder classes have been updated to prevent
  the above problems to happen, this will take care of invalid
  characters itself or in string when encoding or decoding.
  .
  To obtain the fix:
  Install build 20101015 or later
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  JAVA CLASS LIBS

• Fixed component ID

  620700130

Applicable component levels

• R600 PSN

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