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Error message of "Malformed UTF-8" hiding real error messages

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API Platform version(s) affected: v2.6.5

Description
I’m getting this error for most problems on api calls:

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For this request data:

{
  "order": "api/orders/696e4882-88bf-4b91-984c-ec41f7498958",
  "token": "12345",
  "cardNumber": "xyz",
  "cardExpiryDate": "1125",
  "currency": "CHF",
  "cardSchemeName": "Visa",
  "dataProcessed": "2021-08-25T10:14:32.534Z",
  "rawResponse": "data",
  "createdAt": "2021-08-25T10:14:32.534Z",
  "uuid": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66af79"
}

The issue here is dataProcessed was renamed to the correct naming of dateProcessed (note the e), but because of, (I’m assuming) the usage of a uuid, there were encoding issues on the exception and that naming issue was hidden, and I could only see it in the logs:

[2021-08-27T20:34:54.262360+00:00] request.CRITICAL: Uncaught PHP Exception Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\NotNullConstraintViolationException: "An exception occurred while executing 'INSERT INTO payment (token, card_number, card_expiry_date, currency, card_scheme_name, date_processed, raw_response, created_at, updated_at, uuid, order_id) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)' with params ["12345", "xyz", "1125", "CHF", "Visa", null, "data", "2021-08-27 20:34:54", "2021-08-27 20:34:54", "\x3f\xa8\x5f\x64\x57\x17\x45\x62\xb3\xfc\x2c\x96\x3f\x66\xaf\x79", 1]:  SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1048 Column 'date_processed' cannot be null"....

This is causing HUGE issues as every little error will give me the Malformed UTF-8... error message and I have to go into the server and tail the logs o see the actual error.

HELP!

How to reproduce
Have something throw an error where you use uuids

Possible Solution

Additional Context

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:11 (6 by maintainers)

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1reaction
AntonioCScommented, Sep 4, 2021

@dunglas A solution is offered here: https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform/issues/1900 and it’s just he addition of one more flag: JSON_INVALID_UTF8_IGNORE

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