CandidateReference: customTextBlock lengths incorrect

[akelday]

The CandidateReference entity appears to have the wrong length (255) reported for customTextBlock1 to 3.

com.bullhornsdk.data.exception.RestApiException: {
"errorMessage" : "error persisting an entity of type: CandidateReference",
"errorMessageKey" : "errors.cannotPersistEntity",
"errorCode" : 500,
"errors" : [ {
"propertyName" : "customTextBlock1",
"maxLength" : 255,
"severity" : "ERROR",
"type" : "PROPERTY_VALUE_TOO_LONG"
} ],
"entityName" : "CandidateReference"
}

[akelday]

Is there's any progress with this issue? We have a customer with missing data due to this problem and they obviously want an update...

[johnsully83]

Hey there,
So the SDK actually just throws a RestApiException whenever it receives a 500 (or similar) response from the BULLHORN REST APIs. The fact we're seeing this error implies that BH is replying to your POST/PUT with

{
"errorMessage" : "error persisting an entity of type: CandidateReference",
"errorMessageKey" : "errors.cannotPersistEntity",
"errorCode" : 500,
"errors" : [ {
"propertyName" : "customTextBlock1",
"maxLength" : 255,
"severity" : "ERROR",
"type" : "PROPERTY_VALUE_TOO_LONG"
} ],
"entityName" : "CandidateReference"
}

then the SDK sees this and just throws an exception, which contains the JSON String we're seeing here.

Basically in order to fix this issue we'll want to open a ticket with BULLHORN Support, because the fix will involve a change to the REST APIs themselves as opposed to a change in the SDK. If you can contact BH support and open up such an issue, we can absolutely ensure this gets fixed as soon as possible.