[Building Sakai] Latest 2.7.x throw UTF-8 DB Error

[Warwick Chapman]

Ok, perhaps I should check out a release candidate instead.  I cannot find
any tags on the website or blog for the current RC.  Any pointers?

-- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Warwick Chapman <warwickchapman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok, Steve
>
> I recreated the DB using UTF-8 and that error is now gone.
>
> Now I am getting:
>
> ERROR main org.sakaiproject.util.NoisierDefaultListableBeanFactory - Failed
> to preinstantiate the singleton named
> org.sakaiproject.poll.logic.ExternalLogic. Destroying all Spring beans.
> org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating
> bean with name 'org.sakaiproject.poll.logic.ExternalLogic' defined in file
> [/opt/tomcat/components/polls-pack/WEB-INF/components.xml]: Error setting
> property values; nested exception is
> org.springframework.beans.NotWritablePropertyException: Invalid property
> 'emailService' of bean class
> [org.sakaiproject.poll.logic.impl.ExternalLogicImpl]: Bean property
> 'emailService' is not writable or has an invalid setter method. Does the
> parameter type of the setter match the return type of the getter?
>
> -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> You need to create the database with the utf8 character set:
>>
>> create database sakai default character set utf8;
>>
>> Check the equivalent syntax when using mysqladmin.
>>
>> I believe you can change the encoding after the fact, but AFAIK it's not
>> trivial so best to create the db in the right format to start with.
>>
>> And in your Tomcat connector you need the URIEncoding param:
>>
>>   <Connector port="8081" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
>>                maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
>>                enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
>>                connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" *
>> URIEncoding="UTF-8"*/>
>>
>> It might just be a case of adding this to your Tomcat connector as your
>> system might default to utf8 so teh database might be ok.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 04/06/2010, at 5:25 PM, Warwick Chapman wrote:
>>
>> Hey Steve
>>
>> I created the DB with:
>>
>> mysqladmin -p create sakai
>>
>> The MySQL config in sakai.properties follows:
>>
>> vendor at org.sakaiproject.db.api.SqlService=mysql
>> driverClassName at javax.sql.BaseDataSource=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
>> hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
>> url at javax.sql.BaseDataSource
>> =jdbc:mysql://dbserver:3306/sakai?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8
>> validationQuery at javax.sql.BaseDataSource=select 1 from DUAL
>> defaultTransactionIsolationString at javax.sql.BaseDataSource
>> =TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED
>>
>> -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Steve Swinsburg <
>> steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Warwick,
>>>
>>> When you created your database, did you create it with the utf8 character
>>> set? Also, does your Tomcat connector have the URIEncoding="UTF-8" parameter
>>> added?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/06/2010, at 4:48 PM, Warwick Chapman wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I'm back on the horse now and trying to install the latest 2.7.x branch
>>> (78257) but am getting the following in the catalina.out file:
>>>
>>> <log>
>>>  FATAL main org.sakaiproject.content.impl.DbContentService - Check on
>>> Database Failed
>>> java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value:
>>> '\xC2\x80\xC2\x81\xC2\x82...' for column 'XML' at row 1
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> FATAL main org.sakaiproject.content.impl.DbContentService - WARNING
>>>   The connection from this instance of Sakai to the database
>>>   has been tested and found to corrupt UTF-8 Data.
>>>   In order for Sakai to operate correctly you must ensure that your
>>>   database setup is correct for UTF-8 data. This includes both the
>>>   JDBC connection to the database and the underlying storage in the
>>>   database.
>>>   The test that was performed on your database create a table
>>>   wrote some data to that table and read it back again. On reading
>>>   that data back it found some form of corruption, reported above.
>>>
>>>  More information on database setup for sakai can be found at
>>>
>>> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/DOC/Install+Guide+-+DB+(2.4)
>>>
>>>  Sakai Startup will continue but you might want to address this issue
>>> ASAP.
>>> </log>
>>>
>>> MySQL is using the InnoDB engine as recommended by Anthony Whyte and I
>>> can confirm that the DB was successfully populated upon initial startup.
>>>
>>> -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
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