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'couldn’t publish the app definition , please check the validity of the referenced process models'

jonnyg

We've gotten this error message before when importing and publishing to a new server.
"couldn’t publish the app definition , please check the validity of the referenced process models"

This is hardly helpful. We need some details with this - even in a stacktrace in the logs.
Which class is throwing this error? Can we enable debugging on that class?

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martin_grofcik

Hi JonnyG,

Could you create jUnit test please?
https://forums.activiti.org/content/sticky-how-write-unit-test

Regards
Martin

jonnyg

Can you please tell me which part of the code is throwing this error – and shed light on why there is no error dump to the logs whatsoever?
I can't create a JUnit test where I don't know the method being called.

jbarrez

There should be a stacktrace in the logs for this. Did you check all log files (in some configs there are different logfiles).
if not, can you share your app zip with us?

paulhh1

Also, best that this is done via the Support channel for Alfresco Activiti Enterprise.

Thanks
Paul.

jonnyg

Joram - no stacktrace here; I checked.
Paul – we have an open case on this. My main point in posting here was to see if anyone else had run into this.

douglascrp

I'm facing the same issue using activiti6 beta2.

I've been following the steps from this blog post http://bpmn20inaction.blogspot.com.br/2015/09/getting-started-with-new-activiti-6-ui.html

When I try to publish the developed app, the only information I get is the message "Couldn’t publish the app definition , please check the validity of the referenced process models"

Nothing in the logs.

Isn't there any option to validate the model somewhere?

douglascrp

I've just found what my problem was.

Error messages were not being printed into catalina.out file, but I found some interesting errors into localhost-<date>.log file.
In my case, the problem was related with a flow without a targetRef:

28-Apr-2016 11:54:40.066 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-5] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke Servlet.service() for servlet [appDispatcher] in context with path [/activiti-app] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is org.activiti.bpmn.exceptions.XMLException: cvc-complex-type.4: Attribute 'targetRef' must appear on element 'sequenceFlow'.] with root cause<br> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 36; columnNumber: 118; cvc-complex-type.4: Attribute 'targetRef' must appear on element 'sequenceFlow'.<br> at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)

With that information, I went back to the process design interface, and by selecting each flow, I noticed a really small red circle, and that was the wrong flow.

Why not to give that more emphasis?

Thank you

jbarrez

"Why not to give that more emphasis?"

Which product version are you using? The latest version should give a clear emphasis and catch this on validation.