Bug 59712

Summary: If HTTP post message body data has %pa% the Results Tree can't show the message
Product: JMeter - Now in Github Reporter: Teemu Vesala <Teemu.Vesala>
Component: HTTPAssignee: JMeter issues mailing list <issues>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: aleksandr.rekunkov, przeszotek
Priority: P2    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
Attachments: Patch which fixes the issue

Description Teemu Vesala 2016-06-16 05:06:23 UTC 
This is tested with 3.0 and also the trunk from SVN.

I have %pa% at body data of HTTP Request sampler. When I try to view it with Results Tree, the result is not shown at all. Instead I get the exception below. The problem is that quite many desktop applications are using HTTP(S) POST messages to transport the application specific data to the server. Those can violate the http-protocol. In my opinion the tree view (and others) should be able to show the results even at that case. 

Exception:
2016/06/16 07:48:03 WARN  - jmeter.protocol.http.visualizers.RequestViewHTTP: Error decoding query, maybe your request parameters should be encoded:%pa% java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "pa"
	at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.visualizers.RequestViewHTTP.decodeQuery(RequestViewHTTP.java:347)
	at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.visualizers.RequestViewHTTP.getQueryMap(RequestViewHTTP.java:301)
	at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.visualizers.RequestViewHTTP.setSamplerResult(RequestViewHTTP.java:223)
	at org.apache.jmeter.visualizers.RequestPanel.setSamplerResult(RequestPanel.java:109)
	at org.apache.jmeter.visualizers.SamplerResultTab.setupTabPane(SamplerResultTab.java:229)
	at org.apache.jmeter.visualizers.ViewResultsFullVisualizer.valueChanged(ViewResultsFullVisualizer.java:263)
	at javax.swing.JTree.fireValueChanged(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.JTree$TreeSelectionRedirector.valueChanged(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeSelectionModel.notifyPathChange(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeSelectionModel.setSelectionPaths(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeSelectionModel.setSelectionPath(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.JTree.setSelectionPath(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTreeUI.selectPathForEvent(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTreeUI$Handler.handleSelection(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTreeUI$Handler.mousePressed(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Comment 1 Teemu Vesala 2016-06-16 05:10:47 UTC 
The problem is at the code snippet below. Returning null when the decoding fails for IllegalArgumentExpcetion prevents showing the message at all. I'd change this to return non-decoded query. I've attached the diff about that modification. It didn't add any new unit test error messages.  

    public static String decodeQuery(String query) {
        if (query != null && query.length() > 0) {
            try {
                query = URLDecoder.decode(query, CHARSET_DECODE); // better ISO-8859-1 than UTF-8
            } catch(IllegalArgumentException e) {
                log.warn("Error decoding query, maybe your request parameters should be encoded:" + query, e);
                return null;
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
                log.warn("Error decoding query, maybe your request parameters should be encoded:" + query, uee);
                return null;
            } 
            return query;
        }
        return null;
    }
Comment 2 Teemu Vesala 2016-06-16 05:11:46 UTC 
Created attachment 33954 [details]
Patch which fixes the issue
Comment 3 Felix Schumacher 2016-06-21 18:01:43 UTC 
*** Bug 59714 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Felix Schumacher 2016-06-21 18:17:01 UTC 
Thanks for your contribution.

Date: Tue Jun 21 18:14:22 2016
New Revision: 1749583

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1749583&view=rev
Log:
Display original query in RequestViewHTTP when decoding fails.
Based on patch by Teemu Vesala (teemu.vesala at qentinel.com)

Bugzilla Id: 59712

Modified:
    jmeter/trunk/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/visualizers/RequestViewHTTP.java
    jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
Comment 5 Felix Schumacher 2016-07-06 19:12:27 UTC 
*** Bug 59808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 The ASF infrastructure team 2022-09-24 20:38:04 UTC 
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/4003