Search in Marketplace failed due to "missing required JSON property: href"

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*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Problem

The following appears in the atlassian-fisheye-20XX-XX-XX.log

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2017-04-28 12:03:24,082 WARN [qtp1889057031-321 ] com.atlassian.upm.rest.resources.RecentlyUpdatedPluginCollectionResource RecentlyUpdatedPluginCollectionResource-get - Failed to get available plugins com.atlassian.marketplace.client.MpacException$InvalidResponseError: Instantiation of [simple type, class com.atlassian.marketplace.client.model.Links$Link] value failed: missing required JSON property: href at com.atlassian.marketplace.client.impl.JsonEntityEncoding.decode(JsonEntityEncoding.java:43) [atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.20.5_1491993160000.jar:?] at com.atlassian.marketplace.client.impl.ApiHelperBase.decode(ApiHelperBase.java:247) [atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.20.5_1491993160000.jar:?] at com.atlassian.marketplace.client.impl.ApiHelperBase.getEntity(ApiHelperBase.java:79) [atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.20.5_1491993160000.jar:?] at com.atlassian.marketplace.client.impl.PluginsImpl.getMorePlugins(PluginsImpl.java:116) [atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.20.5_1491993160000.jar:?] at com.atlassian.marketplace.client.impl.PluginsImpl.find(PluginsImpl.java:110) [atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.20.5_1491993160000.jar:?] at com.atlassian.upm.pac.PacClientImpl.findPlugins(PacClientImpl.java:449) [atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.20.5_1491993160000.jar:?] at com.atlassian.upm.rest.resources.RecentlyUpdatedPluginCollectionResource.get(RecentlyUpdatedPluginCollectionResource.java:90) [atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.20.5_1491993160000.jar:?] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [?:1.8.0_121] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) [?:1.8.0_121] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) [?:1.8.0_121] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) [?:1.8.0_121]

Resolution

Upgrade your UPM to the latest version using this documentation.

Updated on April 11, 2025

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