Text File Utilities

Hi,
We are on prem and have the Appian version 24.1... this new version has a minimum requierement that the version is 24.2.

is there any older version we could download of the Text File Utilities that supports the 24.1 version of Appian?

The Smart Service "Append Text to File" still does not work and does not append the text provided to the document. Reverting to version to 2.0.0 resolves this issue. 

• Fixing issue with readtextfromfile reading from oldest version of document instead of current version

Hello,

We've found the following  bug in the ReadTextFileExpression function in version 3.0.1 of the plugin  related to the new file system api management.   

Indeed, instead of using  cs.getDocumentInputStream(txtFile), you should 

use cs.getDocumentInputStream(cs.getVersionId(txtFileId, ContentConstants.VERSION_CURRENT)) otherwise the behaviour is very strange (mix of version and documentid content)

Regards 

yes, I am also experiencing issues with the new version of the plugin. Nothing has changed in our implementation and this functionality was working for us with the old version of the plugin. Now it is throwing error in the logs.

2024-10-23 10:17:25,298 [Appian Work Item - 794645 - WorkID 292 - execution02 - process 2775155 - model 12462 : UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.textutilities.AppendTextToFile - java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.appiancorp.suiteapi.content.ContentService.download(java.lang.Long, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Boolean)" because "cs" is null
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.appiancorp.suiteapi.content.ContentService.download(java.lang.Long, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Boolean)" because "cs" is null
	at com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.textutilities.AppianUtils.getDocumentFromAppian(AppianUtils.java:15)
	at com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.textutilities.AppendTextToFile.run(AppendTextToFile.java:48)
	at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor$1.lambda$call$0(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:138)
	at com.appiancorp.plugins.PluginUsageLogger.runWithPluginInformation(PluginUsageLogger.java:54)
	at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor$1.call(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:138)
	at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor$1.call(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:132)
	at com.appiancorp.common.ContextClassLoaderSwitcher.runInContext(ContextClassLoaderSwitcher.java:30)
	at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor.execute(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:132)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.execute(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:101)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequestResponseCreator.getJavaActivityResultResponse(UnattendedJavaActivityRequestResponseCreator.java:23)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.getJavaActivityResultResponse(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:80)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.execute0(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:67)
	at com.appiancorp.common.persistence.data.AppianDataUserContextProvider.executeWithConsistentDataReads(AppianDataUserContextProvider.java:143)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.ProcessContinuationRequest.executeOuter(ProcessContinuationRequest.java:68)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.ActivityRequest.executeOuter(ActivityRequest.java:41)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.ContinuationRequest.execute(ContinuationRequest.java:136)
	at com.appiancorp.process.engine.AsyncEnabledActivityRequest.execute(AsyncEnabledActivityRequest.java:22)
	at com.appiancorp.process.workpoller.UnattendedRequestHandlerBean.onMessage(UnattendedRequestHandlerBean.java:36)
	at com.appiancorp.process.workpoller.WorkItem.run(WorkItem.java:110)
	at org.springframework.jca.work.SimpleTaskWorkManager$DelegatingWorkAdapter.run(SimpleTaskWorkManager.java:241)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)

• Adding in logging for errors in AppendTextToFile

Are you able to share the document and what you are appending? My tests of this smart service have completed successfully so it's probably related to your particular use case.

The Smart Service "Append Text to File" has stopped working with release 3.0.0 !!

• Updating deprecated ContentService apis

Now that Appian 24.1 is out, is updating this plugin still on the roadmap?