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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This is an Appian supported plug-in. To the extent that this plug-in does not conform to its documentation, please submit a ticket to Appian Technical Support. Appian does not support customer-created customizations or outdated versions of the plug-in.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 24.4
  • First Released:
  • Last Updated:
  • Cost: Free - Appian Supported
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Text File Utilities

Overview

Append, read, or read lines with filters from a text file.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services:

  • appendTextToFile - Append text to a text Document

Functions

  • readTextFromFile - Reads data from a text Document (any extension encoded as text) into a string, with an option to preserve line breaks
  • readMatchingLinesInFile - Reads and returns lines from a text Document which contain a provided search string
  • readMatchingLinesInFileRegex - Reads and returns lines from a text Document which match a provided Regex pattern.
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  • The Smart Service "Append Text to File" has stopped working with release 3.0.0 !!

  • in reply to normanc

    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)

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  • in reply to normanc

    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)

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