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Posted on by vicky1234

HI,

I am getting below error in devops build after doing checkin of the code.

error : Fatal: dynamics://Report/VKSalesInvoice(0,0) - A metadata error occurred. File 'K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Extension\ABCExtension\AxReport\VKSalesInvoice.xml' cannot be deserialized as 'Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Metadata.MetaModel.AxReport'. Ensure the xml is valid. There was an error deserializing the object of type Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Metadata.MetaModel.AxReport. Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 112342, position 12. Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 112342, position 12

On checking the line number by comparing the file the expression was very simple one in fact its a static text as below

=" Please submit your copy".

I have checked the report output and error screen and there is no error and reports also gets deployed in the dev environment.

The report is not giving any error in dev environment on build and deploy . I even did a full build of the model.

Can anyone suggest what can be the issue.

Thanks,

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Hello VK,

just one question. Did you do this change in the AOT in Visual Studio or directly in Source Control Explorer?

It's important because sometimes if you change something directly on the file many more changes are done, such as formatting (UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM, etc).

Please review it.

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vicky1234 66 on at

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Hi Ivan.

Yes it was done in VS

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Martin Dráb 237,967 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Not all characters are visible. There may be a control character, a special type of space, a character that can't be visualized by your current editor and so on.

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vicky1234 66 on at

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Thanks Martin .

How do I find the buggy character because it fails only in the devops build pipeline and not in the local build.

The overall lines of the code is more than 200k lines for this custom report.

Is there a way I can find out the exact issue by some validation.

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Martin Dráb 237,967 Most Valuable Professional on at

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The error messages says where exactly the character is, doesn't it?

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vicky1234 66 on at

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Thanks for the reply Martin.

I have already checked that position as shown below ..I dont understand what is the issue in the below xml.

And the problem is that it only fails in the devOps build.
I also copied the whole xml and validated online for syntax and it was successful but it still gives an error in devops.

Thanks,

VK

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Komi Siabi 13,109 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Just like Martin said,

A character or space would be the reason.

For troubleshooting, I suggest you remove The expression =" Please submit your copy" then try check in.

This would tell you if your expression is the issue .

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Martin Dráb 237,967 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I'm not sure why you show us lines 247850-247859 if - according to information from yourself - the problematic character is at line 112342.

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vicky1234 66 on at

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Nice catch Martin.
Actually I had copied the code and somehow the line number was replaced with some other values while posting the error

The error started at 247853 as shown below,

". Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 247853, position 63. Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 247853, position 63. [C:\DynamicsSDK\Metadata\BuildMetadata.proj]"

Thanks,

VK

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