SOAP Call To ReportService API Fails With Exception " com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 31))" (Doc ID 2260672.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 06, 2018

Applies to:

Symptoms

When ICS makes a SOAP call to webservice which returns base 64 encoded character, ICS is not able to parse returns the below error.

ERROR
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 com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 31))
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1]
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwInvalidSpace(StreamScanner.java:666)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwInvalidSpace(StreamScanner.java:651)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.getNextAfterWS(StreamScanner.java:826)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromProlog(BasicStreamReader.java:2029)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1134)
at com.sun.xml.ws.util.xml.XMLStreamReaderFilter.next(XMLStreamReaderFilter.java:96)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.next(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:80)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.nextContent(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:169)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.nextElementContent(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:104)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:215)
at com.oracle.webservices.impl.encoding.StreamDecoderImpl.decode(StreamDecoderImpl.java:64)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:249)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:166)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.SOAPBindingCodec.decode(SOAPBindingCodec.java:314)
at com.sun.xml.ws.api.message.MessageContextFactory.createContext(MessageContextFactory.java:130)
at com.oracle.webservices.impl.disi.context.DISIMessageContextFactory.createContext(DISIMessageContextFactory.java:114)
at com.oracle.webservices.impl.disi.client.ClientResponseTransportImpl.createContext(ClientResponseTransportImpl.java:205)
at com.bea.wli.sb.service.disi.handlerchain.handlers.OutboundDISIHandler._handleResponse(OutboundDISIHandler.java:290)
at com.bea.wli.sb.service.disi.handlerchain.handlers.OutboundDISIHandler.handleFault(OutboundDISIHandler.java:337)


STEPS
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The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
1. Make a call to a service which returns base 64 encoded character.

 

Cause

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