Getting Metadata extractor failed error while Auditing

[piyush48]

Hi All,

I am getting metadata extraction error in for document created through Rest API with custom content model properties.

Error is as follows:- 

2021-05-21 14:33:16,862  DEBUG [repo.audit.AuditComponentImpl] [http-nio-8080-exec-3] New audit entry:  Application ID: 2       Entry ID:       67      Values:                         /alfresco-access/login=null             /alfresco-access/loginUser=admin        Audit Data:             /alfresco-access/login/user=admin
2021-05-21 14:33:57,837  WARN  [content.metadata.AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter] [http-nio-8080-exec-3] Metadata extraction failed (turn on DEBUG for full error):    Extracter: org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.PoiMetadataExtracter@60ed5434   Content:   ContentAccessor[ contentUrl=store://2021/5/21/14/33/54231e86-cf7b-459a-899b-2b829f5e124e.bin, mimetype=application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document, size=24021, encoding=UTF-8, locale=en_GB]   Failure:   nullnull

i have added following audit filters in my alfresco-global.properties:- 

audit.enabled= true
audit.alfresco-access.enabled=true
audit.alfresco-access.sub-actions.enabled=false
audit.filter.alfresco-access.default.enabled=true
audit.filter.alfresco-access.default.user=~System;~null;.*
audit.filter.alfresco-access.default.path=/app:company_home/st:sites/.*
audit.filter.alfresco-access.transaction.user=~System;~null;.*
audit.filter.alfresco-access.transaction.path=/app:company_home/st:sites/.*
audit.filter.alfresco-access.transaction.action=CREATE;

Also created audit extractor as afresco audit access.xml under tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\audit as follows:-

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Audit
        xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/repo/audit/model/3.2"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.alfresco.org/repo/audit/model/3.2 alfresco-audit-3.2.xsd"
        >
    <DataExtractors>
        <DataExtractor name="simpleValue" registeredName="auditModel.extractor.simpleValue"/>
    </DataExtractors>

    <PathMappings>
        <PathMap source="/alfresco-access" target="/alfresco-access"/>
		<PathMap source="/alfresco-access/transaction" target="/alfresco-access/transaction"/>
    </PathMappings>

    <Application name="alfresco-access" key="alfresco-access">
		<AuditPath key="transaction">
            <RecordValue key="action" dataExtractor="simpleValue" dataSource="/alfresco-access/transaction/action" dataTrigger="/alfresco-access/transaction/action" />  
            <RecordValue key="sub-actions" dataExtractor="simpleValue" dataSource="/alfresco-access/transaction/sub-actions" dataTrigger="/alfresco-access/transaction/sub-actions" />  
            <RecordValue key="path" dataExtractor="simpleValue" dataSource="/alfresco-access/transaction/path" dataTrigger="/alfresco-access/transaction/path" />
            <RecordValue key="type" dataExtractor="simpleValue" dataSource="/alfresco-access/transaction/type" dataTrigger="/alfresco-access/transaction/type" />  
        </AuditPath>
    </Application>
</Audit>

Still getting error. could someone please help me out by guiding what i am doing wrong.

Thanks,

Piyush Patel

[abhinavmishra14]

The two are different components and work independent to each other, however I am not really sure if the failure is related to audit at all. But try adding below loggers and see what you get when failure happens. Also check what is the mimetype you see for the content uploaded via REST APIs

#Metadata extractor 
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.MetadataExtracterRegistry=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.TikaAutoMetadataExtracter=DEBUG

[afaust]

In fact, the poster is getting the error AFTER auditing (by about 40 seconds), so it is completely separate from it.