https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942486#M42175 <P>Thanks Sergiu,</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Could you please help me with the line of code which is used to Display the response of GET message with the help of gs.addInfoMessage function.</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:43:30 GMT swapnilagrawal 2016-10-03T10:43:30Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942478#M42167 <P>Hello All,</P><P></P><P>I have configured REST GET Method, its working fine when I'm Testing from REST Message GET method, but the same method when I called from workflow activity it giving me this error.</P><P><STRONG>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid uri '<SPAN style="text-decoration: line-through;"><A title="k-external-small" class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://***.****.****.*****.***:9060/**/***/**/**" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://***.****.****.*****.***:9060/**/***/**/**</A></SPAN>/ReferenceError: "name" is not defined. (&lt;refname&gt;': escaped absolute path not valid</STRONG></P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="find_real_file.png"><img src="https://www.servicenow.com/community/image/serverpage/image-id/99456iFA101D28AA6C63E5/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="find_real_file.png" alt="find_real_file.png" /></span></STRONG></P><P></P><P>Please guide to resolve the issue.</P><P></P><P>Thanks &amp; Regards,</P><P>Swapnil Agrawal</P><P></P><P></P><P></P> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 12:00:10 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942478#M42167 swapnilagrawal 2016-10-02T12:00:10Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942479#M42168 <P>Can you show more exactly the REST message.. It sound just like the error says. That you are using "name" and it isn't defined.</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>//Göran</P><BR /> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 12:13:27 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942479#M42168 Goran WitchDoc 2016-10-02T12:13:27Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942480#M42169 <P>Hi Goran,</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Below is the screenshot for REST message Workflow activity, the same has been configured in rest messages, there it is working fine.</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Here in variables I have used <STRONG>name = {current.variables.name}</STRONG> by doing this I'm pasing the value of variable name from RITM to this name variable.</P><BR /><P><STRONG><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="find_real_file.png"><img src="https://www.servicenow.com/community/image/serverpage/image-id/99453i2BF1169664457124/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="find_real_file.png" alt="find_real_file.png" /></span></STRONG></P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Thanks </P><BR /><P>Swapnil</P><BR /> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 12:22:58 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942480#M42169 swapnilagrawal 2016-10-02T12:22:58Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942481#M42170 <P>Does your HTTPS URL includes path to a directory that contains spaces in the name?</P><BR /><P>I've seen cases where a path like below example caused same error (see the 'Project Documents' directory name):</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P><SPAN>'</SPAN><A title="k-external-small" class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/Project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/Project</A><SPAN> Documents/My_List.csv'</SPAN></P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>A workaround to that is to move the file to a directory with spaces in the name.</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Regards,</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:53:23 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942481#M42170 sergiu_panaite 2016-10-03T06:53:23Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942482#M42171 <P>Hi Sergiu,</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P><SPAN>No we don't use space in name, this name is unique Username which user chooses for him/her, the only condition is he should have "@" in his name(for example: </SPAN><A title="k-email-small" class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:swapnil@gmail.com">swapnil@gmail.com</A><SPAN> or agr@gmail anything works fine.)</SPAN></P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Thanks &amp; Regards,</P><BR /><P>Swapnil</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 07:05:39 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942482#M42171 swapnilagrawal 2016-10-03T07:05:39Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942483#M42172 <P>I was not referring to the username, but to the path to the file on the server. Does that path includes spaces?</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Regards</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 07:50:39 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942483#M42172 sergiu_panaite 2016-10-03T07:50:39Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942484#M42173 <P>No URL has non spaces.</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:33:12 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942484#M42173 swapnilagrawal 2016-10-03T10:33:12Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942485#M42174 <P>That's the only case I've seen so far. Maybe open an incident with ServiceNow support as that way you get a faster response.</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:36:47 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942485#M42174 sergiu_panaite 2016-10-03T10:36:47Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942486#M42175 <P>Thanks Sergiu,</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Could you please help me with the line of code which is used to Display the response of GET message with the help of gs.addInfoMessage function.</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:43:30 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942486#M42175 swapnilagrawal 2016-10-03T10:43:30Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942487#M42176 <P>Hi Swapnil,</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>Following is the script using which you can print the response of GET method in REST.</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P>var restCall = new RESTMessage('RestMessage1', 'get'); //RestMessage1 is name of the REST Message</P><BR /><P> &nbsp; restCall.setStringParameter('xyz','xyz'); // xyz is the parameter</P><BR /><P> &nbsp; restCall.setStringParameter('abc','abc'); // abc is the parameter </P><BR /><P> &nbsp; var response = restCall.execute();</P><BR /><P> &nbsp; responseBody=response.getBody();</P><BR /><P> &nbsp; gs.print(responseBody);</P><BR /><P>gs.addInfoMessage(responseBody);</P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P></P><BR /><P style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;">Mark Correct if this solves your issue or hit Like and Helpful if you find my response worthy based on the impact.</P><BR /><P style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;">Thanks</P><BR /><P style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;">Ankur</P><BR /> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:23 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942487#M42176 Ankur Bawiskar 2016-10-03T12:00:23Z https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942488#M42177 <P>I believe that Sergui means that a possible workaround is: To move the file to a directory WITH OUT spaces in the name.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />The Error message is related to Unexpected characters in the URL:&nbsp;<BR />Alternatively when using a URL with spaces or other special characters in a script is to URL encode these.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />If you are seeing this issue using a script try using:&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P> <DIV> <DIV>var urlencoded=encodeURIComponent('/some/path/with spaces/');&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></DIV> </DIV> Sat, 07 May 2022 12:31:39 GMT https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/how-to-resolve-the-issue-java-lang-illegalargumentexception/m-p/942488#M42177 heinkoster 2022-05-07T12:31:39Z