Known Issues for Native Object API

Learn about known issues and apply workarounds for Native Object API and custom development.

Issue #Description
SMPONP-3552
64-bit packaging tool cannot be launched on 64-bit Windows.

By default, SAP Mobile SDK installer configures the system to use the 32-bit packaging tool. If you try to run the 64-bit packaging tool (PackagingTool64.bat) after completing a new or upgrade installation of SAP Mobile SDK on a 64-bit Windows system, launching the tool fails with this message:

Cannot load 64-bit SWT libraries on 32-bit JVM
Workaround: Set up a 64-bit JDK to work with the 64-bit packaging tool.
  1. Set system environment variables CLASSPATH, JAVA_HOME, and Path to point to the 64-bit JDK installed by SAP Mobile Platform at SUP_HOME\UnwiredPlatform\JDK1.6.0_31-x64.
  2. Verify that the SUP_HOME\ObjectAPI\Utils\bin\set-java-home.bat has been modified to point to the installed 64-bit JDK (where SUP_HOME is the installation directory for Sybase Mobile SDK on the 64-bit system).
  3. Launch PackagingTool64.bat.
RTC-347
iOS client requests might fail with an HTTP 500 error when using Apache as a reverse proxy. 

The cause is that Apache implements the HTTP 1.1 specification in such a way that the HTTP header coming from the client, Transfer-Encoding: "Chunked" is not accepted due to the capitalized "c" in "Chunked".

Workaround: Change Apache configuration to rewrite incoming HTTP headers. Use mod_headers and add this to the Apache configuration:
RequestHeader edit Transfer-Encoding Chunked chunked early
RTC-304
Additional information for Tracking KPI for iOS Devices topic in Developer Guide: iOS Object API Applications.

There is additional and corrected information for the Tracking KPI for iOS Devices topic in the Developer Guide: iOS Object API Applications.

Workaround: See Tracking KPI for iOS Devices .

RTC-282
Memory warnings from autoreleased objects.

You receive memory warnings in your application because of too many autoreleased objects. One example is when there are many objects at the application level through the findAll method.

Workaround: To reduce memory growth, use the appropriate autorelease pool. For more information, see this document from Apple: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmAutoreleasePools.html .

RTC-280
Failure to start a connection after a shutdown of Unwired Server.

For Windows, Windows Mobile, Android and BlackBerry Object API clients, when the device application connects to the Unwired Server, the Unwired Server shuts down, and the device application calls startConnection again immediately after the shutdown occurs, an ApplicationRuntimeException may be thrown indicating Client state error. Client is already started, without attempting to reconnect to the server.

Workaround: You can catch the exception in the device application, sleep a few hundreds of milliseconds, and retry by calling Application.startConnection(timeout) again. After one or two seconds, try to reconnect.

RTC-265
Cannot change the database file path.

You create a database for your application with the default database file path, delete the database, and then change the database file path in the connection profile to another value so that you can create a new database file for your application. After you invoke the createDatabase operation again, however, the database is created with the old default database file path, not with the new one. 

Workaround: None.

RTC-261
When using an Apache server as a reverse proxy without SAP Hosted Relay Server to proxy Object API Applications or HTML5/JS Hybrid Apps against SAP Mobile Server verion 2.2 and newer, if a custom URL suffix is used, the client may report connection failures.

Workaround:  Clients should specify a custom URL suffix including a trailing forward slash "/". For example, "/myApp/" instead of "/myApp"

RTC-258
Exception when calling update on a new MBO instance.

When you call the update method on a new MBO instance, an ObjectNotSaved exception is thrown. For example:

MBO instance = new MBO(); 
instance.${UpdateMethod}(); //UpdateMethod is a update method defined in the model. 

Workaround: Do not call the update method for a new instance. Only call update when creating or saving an instance.

RTC-206
Root certificate required for synchronization with an HTTPS server.

The Android Object API cannot synchronize with an HTTPS server unless the device has access to the root certificate of the certificate used to sign the certificate presented by the server. 

Workaround: Use the root certificate on the device.

CR-709353
Cannot pass cookies through personalization keys using replication-based synchronization (RBS).
Workaround: Use thid code:
SUPStringProperties *cookies = [smnwTests cookieName]; 
[[[SUPApplication getInstance] connectionProperties] setHttpCookies:cookies];
CR-708707
Best practice for deleting the client database.

By default, asynchronous operation replay is enabled. When an application is connected (by Application.StartConnection() or Application.RegisterApplication), it may receive background notifications, and trigger a synchronize or other database operation. If you try to delete the database, you may receive database exceptions.

Workaround: Before deleting the database, stop the application connection (Application.StopConnection()).

CR-692374
Enabling compression incurs additional processing on the device and the server side to optimize the amount of data to be transferred over the network.

Workaround: Carefully evaluate whether the compression trade-off is appropriate in the deployment environment, and carefully size the server capacity to support it. If appropriate in a particular environment, follow the SAP Mobile Platform Developer Guides to enable compression.

CR-690308
The query.getRow() API may not return the correct row to BlackBerry clients.

For example, in this connected result set for a BlackBerry client, rs.getRow() may not return the correct value:

Query query = new Query(); 
query.select("c.id as Id, c.fname as Fname, c.state as countState"); 
query.from("Customer", "c"); 
query.setConnectedResultSetEnabled(true); 
QueryResultSet rs = MyDatabase.executeQuery(query); 
rs.executeQuery(); 
rs.last(); 
rs.afterLast(); 
rs.previous();

Workaround: Do not use the query.getRow() API QueryResultSet.previous\next return Boolean to indicate if the current position is valid. Rely only on the return value.

CR-675716
SQLite cannot support create operations with more than 3MB of data, which is roughly 128 columns at 64KB per column on Windows Mobile devices.

In Windows Mobile applications that use message-based synchronization, when a row reaches 3MB or more, and the client invokes the SQLite create operation during subscription, an internal exception is generated, data import fails, and the import operation fails to commit the transaction.

Workaround: None.