How to fix AEM error org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.impl.io.GenericArtifactHandler Error while parsing when deploying AEM package
I ran into this issue with one of the projects I was working on, AEM throws this very unhelpful error:
rg.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.impl.io.GenericArtifactHandler Error while parsing <path here>/.content.xml: {}
org.xml.sax.SAXException: null
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.impl.io.DocViewSAXImporter.startElement(DocViewSAXImporter.java:662)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:509)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:374)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2784)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:602)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:112)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:505)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:841)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:770)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:327)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.impl.io.GenericArtifactHandler.accept(GenericArtifactHandler.java:99)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.commit(Importer.java:931)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.commit(Importer.java:801)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.commit(Importer.java:841)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.commit(Importer.java:841)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.commit(Importer.java:841)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.commit(Importer.java:841)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.commit(Importer.java:841)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.io.Importer.run(Importer.java:415)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.packaging.impl.ZipVaultPackage.extract(ZipVaultPackage.java:234)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.packaging.impl.JcrPackageImpl.extract(JcrPackageImpl.java:397)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.packaging.impl.JcrPackageImpl.extract(JcrPackageImpl.java:356)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.packaging.impl.JcrPackageImpl.install(JcrPackageImpl.java:350)
at com.day.crx.packaging.impl.J2EEPackageManager.consoleInstall(J2EEPackageManager.java:350)
at com.day.crx.packaging.impl.J2EEPackageManager.doPost(J2EEPackageManager.java:188)
at com.day.crx.packaging.impl.PackageManagerServlet.doPost(PackageManagerServlet.java:128)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:644)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:725)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:85)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationChain.doFilter(InvocationChain.java:79)
at org.apache.sling.security.impl.ReferrerFilter.doFilter(ReferrerFilter.java:295)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:135)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationChain.doFilter(InvocationChain.java:74)
at com.adobe.granite.license.impl.LicenseCheckFilter.doFilter(LicenseCheckFilter.java:308)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:135)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationChain.doFilter(InvocationChain.java:74)
at org.apache.felix.http.sslfilter.internal.SslFilter.doFilter(SslFilter.java:96)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:135)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationChain.doFilter(InvocationChain.java:74)
at org.apache.sling.i18n.impl.I18NFilter.doFilter(I18NFilter.java:138)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.FilterHandler.handle(FilterHandler.java:135)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationChain.doFilter(InvocationChain.java:74)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.Dispatcher.dispatch(Dispatcher.java:128)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:49)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:725)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:587)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:221)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:215)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null
The issue turned out to be a missing jcr:primaryType on one of the tags.. it's hard to find which one in a large xml, so here's what you do:
- go to: http://localhost:4502/system/console/slinglog
- click
Add a new logger - set
- log level to
trace - logger to
org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.impl.io.GenericArtifactHandlerandorg.apache.jackrabbit.vault.fs.impl.io.DocViewSAXImporter - Log File to
logs/sax.log
- Now tail
sax.logwhile deploying your package, look at the element name before the error, that's the one with the issue
Alternatively, you could validate your xml in this fiddle I wrote: https://jsfiddle.net/o11ecL4y/26/, this will only catch missing
jcr:primaryTypeand will NOT validate your xml, you must first validate your xml using: https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input
5 years later this just helped me. Thanks for the jsfiddle too, very handy!