Text File Utilities

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

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

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)

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.