Getting Data In

What is this Java error from within DBConnect?

danielbb
Motivator

I got the following error when a setting a data input in DB Connect -

 

 

java.lang.NullPointerException at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(Unknown Source) at com.splunk.dbx.utils.PercentEncodingQueryDecoder.decode(PercentEncodingQueryDecoder.java:20) at com.splunk.dbx.command.DbxQueryCommand.getParams(DbxQueryCommand.java:274) at com.splunk.dbx.command.DbxQueryCommand.generate(DbxQueryCommand.java:350) at com.splunk.search.command.GeneratingCommand.process(GeneratingCommand.java:183) at com.splunk.search.command.ChunkedCommandDriver.execute(ChunkedCommandDriver.java:109) at com.splunk.search.command.AbstractSearchCommand.run(AbstractSearchCommand.java:50) at com.splunk.search.command.GeneratingCommand.run(GeneratingCommand.java:15) at com.splunk.dbx.command.DbxQueryCommand.runCommand(DbxQueryCommand.java:256) at com.splunk.dbx.command.DbxQueryServer.lambda$handleQuery$1(DbxQueryServer.java:144) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

 

 

Has anybody seen it before?

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wryanthomas
Contributor

I'm seeing it now... with MS SQL Server driver to SQL Server.

Did you find a solution?

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