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fail to connect with java sdk

perseger
Explorer

Hi,

I'm trying to connect to Splunk API through java sdk, but get stuck when creating a job.

// Create a map of arguments and add login parameters
    ServiceArgs loginArgs = new ServiceArgs();
    loginArgs.setHost("localhost");
    loginArgs.setPort(8089);

    // Connect to Splunk
    Service service = Service.connect(loginArgs);

    JobArgs jobargs = new JobArgs();
    jobargs.setExecutionMode(JobArgs.ExecutionMode.NORMAL);
    JobCollection jobs = service.getJobs();
    Job job = jobs.create("search * | head 5", jobargs); // <<--- this fails

    // Wait for the search to finish
    while (!job.isDone()) {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(500);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    // Get the search results 
    try (InputStream resultsNormalSearch = job.getResults()) {
        String inputStreamString = new Scanner(resultsNormalSearch, "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A").next();
        System.out.println(inputStreamString);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();  //To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File Templates.
    }

I'm running Splunk Java SDK 1.2, Splunk Free licence 6.0, Java 7, Windows 7

It works in Splunk 5.0.4 but running against Splunk 6 I get the following error:

[Fatal Error] :1:3: Dokumentets kodtext före rotelementet måste vara välformulerad. --> in english --> Document code text before the root element must be well-formed.

Exception in thread "main" com.splunk.HttpException: HTTP 400
    at com.splunk.HttpException.create(HttpException.java:59)
    at com.splunk.HttpService.send(HttpService.java:355)
    at com.splunk.Service.send(Service.java:1203)
    at com.splunk.HttpService.post(HttpService.java:212)
    at com.splunk.JobCollection.create(JobCollection.java:79)
    at com.splunk.JobCollection.create(JobCollection.java:111)
    at se.lul.fris.splunkpinger.Main2.main(Main2.java:28)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)

Does anyone know what's wrong?
Thanks

Tags (2)

npbala_22
Explorer

Still Getting same error.. Can you resolve this

erritesh17
Path Finder

Hi ,
Here I will resolve that issue ,
Follow that step

public class SplunkConnection {

public String secureConnection() throws JSONException, IOException{

 HttpService.setSslSecurityProtocol(SSLSecurityProtocol.TLSv1_2);

    Map <String,Object> connectionArgs = new HashMap<String,Object>();
    connectionArgs.put("host", "DEVELOPMENT");
    connectionArgs.put("username", "admin");
    connectionArgs.put("password", "*****");
    connectionArgs.put("port", 8089);
    connectionArgs.put("scheme", "https");
    Service splunkService = Service.connect(connectionArgs);
    Args queryArgs = new Args();
    queryArgs.put("earliest_time","0");
    queryArgs.put("latest_time","now");
Job job = splunkService.getJobs().create("search index=*");
while(!job.isDone()){
    try{
        Thread.sleep(500);
    }catch (Exception exp){
        exp.printStackTrace();
    }
}
try{
    Args outputArgs = new Args();
    outputArgs.put("output_mode", "json");
    InputStream inputStream = job.getResults(outputArgs);
    byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
    String json= "";
    while(inputStream.read(buffer)!= -1){
        json = new String(buffer);
        logger.info(json );     
    }
    return json;

} catch(Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
}
    return null;
}

}
Thank you,
If you get any issue please let me know.

bgadsk
New Member

Did you end up fixing this issue? If so, how? I am facing the same issue now.

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