On 7/22/14, Monica Mora monica.joana11@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

I was using the GWToolset (on Commons) to do a batch upload and got this message :

PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.24wmf13/includes/OutputPage.php line 1296: Call to a member function getText() on a non-object

Previously, I did an upload test with one file and went well: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mochila_Cangrejos_de_colores.jpg

This is a sample code of my XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<records>

<record> <URL>http://mochila_images.s3.amazonaws.com/aaa008.jpg</URL> <mochila_titulo>Mochila_Cangrejos de colores</mochila_titulo> <description>Cangrejo Halloween en la Isla Iguana, Los Santos</description> <author>José Manuel Castrellon</author> <source>Fundación Almanaque Azul</source> <mochila_relacion_programa_educativo>{{Information field|name=mochila_relacion_programa_educativo|value=Los seres vivos y su ambiente}}</mochila_relacion_programa_educativo> <mochila_provincia>{{Information field|name=mochila_provincia|value=Los Santos}}</mochila_provincia> <mochila_distrito>{{Information field|name=mochila_distrito|value=Pedasí}}</mochila_distrito> <mochila_corregimiento>{{Information field|name=mochila_corregimiento|value=Mariabé}}</mochila_corregimiento> <mochila_lugar>{{Information field|name=mochila_lugar|value=Isla Iguana}}</mochila_lugar> <Location>{{Location|7.63|-80.00|PA-7>}}</Location> <mochila_georef_type>{{Information field|name=mochila_georef_type|value=Centroide}}</mochila_georef_type> <date>-</date> <Category>Gecarcinus quadratus</Category> <mochila_ecosistema>{{Information field|name=mochila_ecosistema|value=}}</mochila_ecosistema> <mochila_grupos_humanos>{{Information field|name=mochila_grupos humanos|value=}}</mochila_grupos_humanos> <mochila_palabras_clave>{{Information field|name=mochila_palabras_clave|value=Animal, Crustáceo, Cangrejo, Isla}}</mochila_palabras_clave> <mochila_tema>{{Information field|name=mochila_tema|value=Interacción hombre- ambiente}}</mochila_tema> <mochila_paisaje>{{Information field|name=mochila_paisaje|value=Natural}}</mochila_paisaje> <mochila_nombre_comun>{{Information field|name=mochila_nombre_comun|value=Cangrejo de mangle, cangrejo de tierra, cangrejo hóloween}}</mochila_nombre_comun> <mochila_codigo_admin>{{Information field|name=mochila_codigo_admin|value=70503}}</mochila_codigo_admin> <mochila_geologia>{{Information field|name=mochila_geologia|value=Sedimentarias}}</mochila_geologia> <mochila_cuenca>{{Information field|name=mochila_cuenca|value=}}</mochila_cuenca> <mochila_SINAP>{{Information field|name=mochila_SINAP|value=R.V.S. Isla Iguana}}</mochila_SINAP>

</record>

</records>

I appreciate any help.

Monica Mora

Hi Monica.

This issue appears to be caused by telling gwtoolset to use a category with an invalid name. This could happen if the category name has characters like '|', '[', or ']' in it ({ or } is also not allowed but should generate a different error). Certain other things aren't allowed but are more obscure, such as a title starting with '../', a title starting with an interwiki prefix, etc. A title consisting of only spaces is also not allowed.

Its hard to say why precisely the category was rejected without knowing what the category name was (For the record, 'Gecarcinus quadratus' is perfectly valid, so it wasn't that).

Come Tuesday next week, there will be a sane error message instead of the giant "Call to a member function getText() on a non-object" explosion that you're experiencing.

--bawolff