Exception on node delete.
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<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>I am getting this exception when deleting nodes.</p>
<pre>The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.</br></br><em class="placeholder">Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageException</em>: External URLs do not have internal route parameters. in <em class="placeholder">Drupal\Core\Entity\Sql\SqlContentEntityStorage-&gt;delete()</em> (line <em class="placeholder">731</em> of <em class="placeholder">core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Sql/SqlContentEntityStorage.php</em>). <br><br>Drupal\decoupled_router\CacheInvalidator-&gt;getTagsBySourcePath(&#039;/node/610&#039;) (Line: 54)<br>Drupal\decoupled_router\CacheInvalidator-&gt;invalidateByPath(Array) (Line: 29)<br>decoupled_router_path_delete(Array)<br>call_user_func_array(&#039;decoupled_router_path_delete&#039;, Array) (Line: 403)<br>Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleHandler-&gt;invokeAll(&#039;path_delete&#039;, Array) (Line: 177)<br>Drupal\Core\Path\AliasStorage-&gt;delete(Array) (Line: 251)<br>Drupal\pathauto\AliasStorageHelper-&gt;deleteMultiple(Array) (Line: 174)<br>Drupal\pathauto\AliasStorageHelper-&gt;deleteBySourcePrefix(&#039;/node/610&#039;) (Line: 189)<br>Drupal\pathauto\AliasStorageHelper-&gt;deleteEntityPathAll(Object) (Line: 106)<br>pathauto_entity_delete(Object)<br>call_user_func_array(&#039;pathauto_entity_delete&#039;, Array) (Line: 403)<br>Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleHandler-&gt;invokeAll(&#039;entity_delete&#039;, Array) (Line: 206)<br>Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageBase-&gt;invokeHook(&#039;delete&#039;, Object) (Line: 773)<br>Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityStorageBase-&gt;invokeHook(&#039;delete&#039;, Object) (Line: 406)<br>Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageBase-&gt;delete(Array) (Line: 723)<br>Drupal\Core\Entity\Sql\SqlContentEntityStorage-&gt;delete(Array) (Line: 398)<br>Drupal\Core\Entity\Entity-&gt;delete() (Line: 73)<br>Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityDeleteForm-&gt;submitForm(Array, Object)<br>call_user_func_array(Array, Array) (Line: 111)<br>Drupal\Core\Form\FormSubmitter-&gt;executeSubmitHandlers(Array, Object) (Line: 51)<br>Drupal\Core\Form\FormSubmitter-&gt;doSubmitForm(Array, Object) (Line: 589)<br>Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilder-&gt;processForm(&#039;node_page_delete_form&#039;, Array, Object) (Line: 318)<br>Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilder-&gt;buildForm(&#039;node_page_delete_form&#039;, Object) (Line: 93)<br>Drupal\Core\Controller\FormController-&gt;getContentResult(Object, Object)<br>call_user_func_array(Array, Array) (Line: 123)<br>Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber-&gt;Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() (Line: 582)<br>Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer-&gt;executeInRenderContext(Object, Object) (Line: 124)<br>Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber-&gt;wrapControllerExecutionInRenderContext(Array, Array) (Line: 97)<br>Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber-&gt;Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() (Line: 151)<br>Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel-&gt;handleRaw(Object, 1) (Line: 68)<br>Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 57)<br>Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\Session-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 47)<br>Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\KernelPreHandle-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 45)<br>Drupal\jsonapi\StackMiddleware\FormatSetter-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 49)<br>Asm89\Stack\Cors-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 50)<br>Drupal\ban\BanMiddleware-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 47)<br>Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ReverseProxyMiddleware-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 52)<br>Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\NegotiationMiddleware-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 23)<br>Stack\StackedHttpKernel-&gt;handle(Object, 1, 1) (Line: 693)<br>Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel-&gt;handle(Object) (Line: 19)</pre><p>I've traced it to CacheTagsInvalidator::getTagsBySourcePath().<br>
Method is called with the same node 2 times and on the second one it is getting the exception.</p>
<p>The aliases on the node are all for different languages.<br>
The ones that are failing are deleted languages (stale aliases).</p>
<h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3>
<p>Catch the exception and return empty result in that case...</p>
<h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3>
<p>Patch...</p>
<h3 id="summary-ui-changes">User interface changes</h3>
<p>None expected.</p>
<h3 id="summary-api-changes">API changes</h3>
<p>None expected.</p>
<h3 id="summary-data-model-changes">Data model changes</h3>
<p>None expected.</p>
<h3 id="summary-release-notes">Release notes snippet</h3>
<p>None expected.</p>
> Related issue: [Issue #2851029](https://www.drupal.org/node/2851029)
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