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SQLException Incorrect string value in merge requests

Problem

Pull/merge requests no longer show in the app after updating beyond Git Integration version 3.7.0+.

The following errors are encountered:

2020-09-28 15:12:01,087+0200 bigbrassband-gitplugin-AsyncProcessorImpl:thread - 0 ERROR      [c.b.j.g.services.async.BigReindexTask] Error retrieving merge/pull requests for repoId = 119
java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy5398.save(Unknown Source)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.ao.dao.MergeRequestDao.update(MergeRequestDao.java:38)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.indexer.pullrequests.MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.updateIfChanged(MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.java:185)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.indexer.pullrequests.MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.lambda$updateMergeRequestsFull$2(MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.java:122)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.ao.dao.MergeRequestDaoImpl.lambda$streamByQuery$1(MergeRequestDaoImpl.java:47)
    at net.java.ao.EntityManager.stream(EntityManager.java:825)
    at com.atlassian.activeobjects.internal.EntityManagedActiveObjects.stream(EntityManagedActiveObjects.java:164)
    at com.atlassian.activeobjects.osgi.TenantAwareActiveObjects.stream(TenantAwareActiveObjects.java:316)
    ... 2 filtered
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:302)
    at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.service.importer.support.internal.aop.ServiceInvoker.doInvoke(ServiceInvoker.java:56)
    at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.service.importer.support.internal.aop.ServiceInvoker.invoke(ServiceInvoker.java:60)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:133)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.invoke(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:121)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
    at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.service.util.internal.aop.ServiceTCCLInterceptor.invokeUnprivileged(ServiceTCCLInterceptor.java:70)
    at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.service.util.internal.aop.ServiceTCCLInterceptor.invoke(ServiceTCCLInterceptor.java:53)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
    at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.service.importer.support.LocalBundleContextAdvice.invoke(LocalBundleContextAdvice.java:57)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:133)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.invoke(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:121)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:208)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy2382.stream(Unknown Source)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.ao.dao.MergeRequestDaoImpl.streamByQuery(MergeRequestDaoImpl.java:46)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.ao.dao.MergeRequestDaoImpl.streamByRepoId(MergeRequestDaoImpl.java:37)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.indexer.pullrequests.MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.updateMergeRequestsFull(MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.java:118)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.indexer.pullrequests.MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.updateMergeRequests(MergeRequestRetrieverImpl.java:90)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.BigReindexTask.reindexMergeRequests(BigReindexTask.java:245)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.BigReindexTask.run(BigReindexTask.java:133)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.AsyncProcessorImpl$1.doRun(AsyncProcessorImpl.java:86)
    at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.indexer.revisions.QueueEntry.run(QueueEntry.java:90)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x8E\x84 C...' for column 'TITLE' at row 1
    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:965)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3973)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3909)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2527)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2680)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:1858)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdateInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2079)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdateInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2013)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeLargeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:5104)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:1998)
    at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:98)
    at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:98)
    at net.java.ao.EntityProxy.save(EntityProxy.java:579)
    at net.java.ao.EntityProxy.invoke(EntityProxy.java:115)
    ... 41 more

 

Diagnosis

The reason for these errors – some pull/merge requests may use 4-byte UTF-8 characters (like emojis) which not supported in MySQL database collation ‘utf8_bin’.

Some useful references for this issue:

 

Solution

Switch the character encoding in the MySQL Jira database to utf8mb4 and collation to utf8mb4_bin as described in the first article listed above.

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