JIRA Macro Issues does not render properly for logins containing white spaces
Problem
When displaying JIRA Issues in a Confluence page, they will not render properly if the user login contains white spaces:
The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:
2014-05-12 11:41:58,239 ERROR [Jira macros executor:thread-4] [confluence.extra.jira.JiraIssuesMacro] throwMacroExecutionException Macro execution exception:
-- referer: http://confluence:8090/ | url: /display/TES/Testing+Home | userName: admin | action: viewpage | page: 4030466
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in query at index 208: http://jira:8080/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=key+in+%28TEST-3%29&returnMax=true&field=summary&field=type&field=resolution&field=status&field=link&xoauth_requestor_id=d luvison
at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:859)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientProtocolConfig.changeHostConfigurationProtocol(HttpClientProtocolConfig.java:43)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientProtocolConfig.configureProtocol(HttpClientProtocolConfig.java:20)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientRequest.configureProtocol(HttpClientRequest.java:532)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientRequest.setUrl(HttpClientRequest.java:135)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientRequest.setUrl(HttpClientRequest.java:71)
at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.jersey.JerseyRequest.setUrl(JerseyRequest.java:57)
at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.jersey.JerseyRequest.setUrl(JerseyRequest.java:21)
at com.atlassian.applinks.core.auth.ApplicationLinkRequestAdaptor.setUrl(ApplicationLinkRequestAdaptor.java:134)
at com.atlassian.applinks.core.auth.ApplicationLinkRequestAdaptor.setUrl(ApplicationLinkRequestAdaptor.java:20)
at com.atlassian.applinks.core.auth.oauth.twolo.impersonation.TwoLeggedOAuthWithImpersonationRequest.signRequest(TwoLeggedOAuthWithImpersonationRequest.java:43)
at com.atlassian.applinks.core.auth.oauth.OAuthRequest.execute(OAuthRequest.java:42)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.DefaultJiraIssuesManager.retrieveXML(DefaultJiraIssuesManager.java:92)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.CacheJiraIssuesManager.retrieveXML(CacheJiraIssuesManager.java:41)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.DefaultJiraIssuesManager.retrieveXMLAsChannel(DefaultJiraIssuesManager.java:174)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.JiraIssuesMacro.populateContextMapForStaticSingleIssue(JiraIssuesMacro.java:753)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.JiraIssuesMacro.createContextMapFromParams(JiraIssuesMacro.java:595)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.JiraIssuesMacro.execute(JiraIssuesMacro.java:1492)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.executor.StreamableMacroFutureTask.call(StreamableMacroFutureTask.java:36)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.executor.StreamableMacroFutureTask.call(StreamableMacroFutureTask.java:15)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query at index 208: http://jira:8080/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=key+in+%28TEST-3%29&returnMax=true&field=summary&field=type&field=resolution&field=status&field=link&xoauth_requestor_id=d luvison
at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2829)
at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3002)
at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3092)
at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3034)
at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:595)
at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:857)
... 23 more
The above symptom will not affect users that do not have white spaces in their username.
Cause
This is a bug with the Application links plugin being unable to handle the white spaces during the information change process. This is currently being tracked in Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. .
Confluence and JIRA does not allow a login containing white spaces, unless you pull those from an external directory (AD/LDAP). If you have a user from AD/LDAP that contains white spaces, you will see this bug when trying to render JIRA issues in a page.
Workaround
Change the username to remove the white spaces in AD/LDAP and synchronize within Confluence. If that is not feasible, make sure to vote for the bug mentioned above and add your thoughts to it.