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Error 500 with JSON in Find operation

NiklasRingdahl — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:10:08 GMT

Hi.

I am using the Find operation to query one of my layers, and it works in the html form view, returning the expected features. But when I switch to output format Json "&f=json", I get:

{"error":{"code":500,"message":"Object reference not set to an instance of an object.","details":[]}}

Url that returns correct data (in html):
http://<myservername>/ArcGIS/rest/services/<myservicename>/MapServer/find?searchText=Kulla&searchFields=SITE%2CFULLNAME&layers=0

Url that returns the error data (in json):
http://<myservername>/ArcGIS/rest/services/<myservicename>/MapServer/find?searchText=Kulla&searchFields=SITE%2CFULLNAME&layers=0&f=json

Any ideas?

Best regards,
- Niklas

Re: Error 500 with JSON in Find operation

EricPaitz — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:04:35 GMT

I know its been awhile since you posted this but I ran into a similar situation when the rows being returned contain special characters like ' " / \ etc. Not sure which version you are using but after we installed the latest update or service pack our problem was fixed.

Re: Error 500 with JSON in Find operation

NiklasRingdahl — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:26:10 GMT

Thanks! I'll look into that. What version or patch did you upgrade to?

- N

Re: Error 500 with JSON in Find operation

EricPaitz — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:08:27 GMT

I just checked and our servers are all running 9.3.1. I have yet to install 9.3.1 SP1 or SP2 so I think it was the jump from 9.3. to 9.3.1 that did it. I also remember having to update our exported Web Service Handlers because our exposed web server is a Linux OS running Apache/Tomcat but our AGS 9.3.1 for the Java Platform is internal to the firewall running a Windows OS.