[Building Sakai] Turnitin problems

[Kevin Takacs]

During our testing of this we found problems with both '&' and '%'
characters in assignment titles, so I added a method to
TurnitinReviewServiceImpl to scrub the titles.  The patch is included in
the following Jira.

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/TII-152

Any submissions that failed before applying this patch will need to have
their statuses modified from 5 to 2 in the contentreview_item table.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:13 PM, John Bush <jbush at anisakai.com> wrote:

> I think we've made some headway on this today.  We've been seeing this
> a lot.  We tracked one problem down due to the use of "&" in the
> assignment title.  It appears that the createAssignment code is
> replacing these with "n", but the job processor is not.  So when it
> tries to find assignments it can't find a match.
>
> My understanding from TII and some googling is that other characters
> cause issue as well.  I don't have access to the api docs to know if
> this is documented there.
>
> Some more info:
>
>
> http://blogs.luc.edu/sakaisys/2013/07/19/turn-it-in-avoid-special-characters-in-assignment-titles-and-submissions/
>
> In code...
>
> /* TODO SWG
> * I'm not sure why this is encoding n's to & rather than just
> * encoding all parameters using urlencode, but I'm hesitant to change
> * without more knowledge to avoid introducing bugs with pre-existing
> * data.
> */
> String assignEnc = assign;
> try {
> if (assign.contains("&")) {
> //log.debug("replacing & in assingment title");
> assign = assign.replace('&', 'n');
> }
> assignEnc = assign;
> log.debug("Assign title is " + assignEnc);
> }
> catch (Exception e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
>
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > I seem to have lost the post about "206" errors with the content review
> integration. That is somewhat typical of me!
> >
> > FWIW, we've just started seeing new Turnitin exceptions. I have no idea
> whether it is related but thought I'd mention it.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> > TransientSubmissionException
> >
> > IOException making turnitin call.
> >
> >     org.sakaiproject.turnitin.util.TurnitinAPIUtil in
> callTurnitinReturnInputStream at line 418 (application)
> >
> >     Caused by: java.net.ConnectException ("Connection timed out")
> (application)
> >
> >     org.sakaiproject.turnitin.util.TurnitinAPIUtil in
> callTurnitinReturnInputStream at line 333 (application)
> >
> >     org.sakaiproject.turnitin.util.TurnitinAPIUtil in
> callTurnitinReturnMap at line 186 (application)
> >
> >
> org.sakaiproject.contentreview.impl.turnitin.TurnitinAccountConnection in
> callTurnitinReturnMap at line 358 (application)
> >
> >
> org.sakaiproject.contentreview.impl.turnitin.TurnitinReviewServiceImpl in
> checkForReportsBulk at line 1797 (application)
> >
> >
> org.sakaiproject.contentreview.impl.turnitin.TurnitinReviewServiceImpl in
> checkForReports at line 1688 (application)
> >
> >     org.sakaiproject.component.app.scheduler.jobs.ContentReviewReports
> in execute at line 22 (application)
> >
> >
> org.sakaiproject.component.app.scheduler.jobs.SpringStatefulJobBeanWrapper
> in execute at line 20 (application)
> >
> >     org.quartz.core.JobRunShell in run at line 202 (application)
> >
> >     org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread in run at line 534
> (application)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
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> >
> >
> >
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