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[Viet Nguyen <viet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam,

Can you try to  use the full object name "dataElementCategoryCombo" instead
of "categoryCombo" and try again. It works on my local.

Need more investigation to understand why the short name does not work
though.

Regards.



On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Sam Johnson <samuel.johnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Devs,
>
>
>
> The problem I reported yesterday has actually turned out to be what I
> think is a new bug in 2.25, which is stopping XML imports for data elements.
>
>
>
> No matter what I do, *any attempt at an XML import of data elements seems
> to throw the error “**DataElementCategoryCombo Missing required property
> `categoryCombo`”*, even if a valid CategoryCombo is supplied.  The same
> XML import works fine in 2.21.
>
>
>
> To reproduce on play.dhis2.org:
>
> ·         Using the import/export module, do an XML export of data
> elements only.
>
> ·         Delete all data elements from the XML except DE_1148614 (which
> uses the default CategoryCombo), and change the user of that data element
> to <user id="xE7jOejl9FI"/>.
>
> ·         To circumvent a couple of other export/import bugs:
> 1. delete the three ‘<’ characters (which have been exported as plaintext
> instead of &lt;)
> 2. delete the <attributeValues> tags (I have no idea why these tags are
> failing)
>
> ·         Import this XML file back into play.dhis2.org.
>
>
>
> The import fails, and the import summary has the error message “DataElementCategoryCombo
> Missing required property `categoryCombo`” – despite the fact that the
> data element has the default categoryCombo id.
>
>
>
> I’ve attached the XML I extracted from play.dhis2.org to speed up
> testing.  I’d be very grateful if you could look into this urgently, as I
> can’t currently do XML imports into my 2.25 instance.
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> Sam.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Dhis2-devs <dhis2-devs-bounces+samuel.johnson=qebo.co.uk@lists.
> launchpad.net> on behalf of Sam Johnson <samuel.johnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> *Date: *Monday, 17 October 2016 at 04:54
> *To: *DHIS2 Developers <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc: *Rodolfo Melia <rodolfo.melia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject: *[Dhis2-devs] FW: Null pointer exception calling
> .../api/me/programs
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I’m trying to produce a generic EventCapture XML config that can be
> imported into any DHIS2 instance, which requires the data elements and
> program to use the default CategoryCombo of the target instance.
>
>
>
> My understanding from the documentation (and the email thread below) is
> that if the CategoryCombo for a data element is null, then during metadata
> import the data element will automatically be assigned the local ‘default’
> CategoryCombo; the problem is that I can’t figure out how to represent this
> ‘null’ CategoryCombo in the XML. I’ve tried:
>
> ·         simply removing all <CategoryCombo /> tags from the data
> elements in the XML;
>
> ·         using <CategoryCombo id=null/>;
>
> ·         using <CategoryCombo id=""/>
>
> ·         using <CategoryCombo code="default"/>.
>
>
>
> In 2.25, all of these throw the error “DataElementCategoryCombo Missing
> required property `categoryCombo`”…  How can I get these data elements to
> take on the local ‘default’ CategoryCombo as the XML is loaded?
>
>
>
> Many thanks for any help anyone is able to give!
>
>
>
> Regards, Sam.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Dhis2-devs <dhis2-devs-bounces+samuel.johnson=qebo.co.uk@lists.
> launchpad.net> on behalf of Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Date: *Monday, 9 May 2016 at 09:37
> *To: *Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc: *Adebusoye Anifalaje <busoye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, DHIS2 Developers <
> dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JM Alcantara <jmalcantara1@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject: *Re: [Dhis2-devs] Null pointer exception calling
> .../api/me/programs
>
>
>
> Noted - we look forward to get a resolution to the setting of CatCombo to
> 'default' in 2.22 soon - we import hundred of new data elements to our
> servers every week, and many of the templates out there have that column
> null. This was not a problem in 2.20.
>
>
> *R*
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> On 9 May 2016 at 09:24, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hi - I just want to confirm that I'm getting my facts right.
>
>
>
> The fix for ensuring that a imported DEs with CatCombo=null are set to
> default is only available in 2.23, latest build.
>
>
>
>
>
> Any 2.23 build, but yes.
>
>
>
> The only workaround available right now for 2.22, that avoids re-starting
> tomcat (which makes the necessary correction at start-up) is to make sure
> that when importing DEs, we set the CatCombo to default in the XML/ CSV.
>
>
>
>
>
> Correct.
>
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>
>
> Lars
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> R
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> *Rodolfo Meliá*
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>
> On 9 May 2016 at 08:19, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And yes, we don't allow null in the categoryCombo field from 2.23 and
> upwards
>
>
> --
>
> Morten Olav Hansen
>
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>
> University of Oslo
>
> http://www.dhis2.org
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> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> *Morten* do you think you could comment?
>
>
> Hi, these kinds of issues are fixed in our new importer (available in
> 2.23), for now I would include the default category combo. When you say
> Import, are you creating this payload yourself, or is it coming from
> another system?
>
> --
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> Morten Olav Hansen
>
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>
> University of Oslo
>
> http://www.dhis2.org
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Viet Nguyen
Software Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org