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Bin Zhu commented on CXF-4684: ------------------------------ Hi Aki, Sorry for the late response. The final changes looks fine for me. Many thanks to all of you. > SOAPFault message improvement in CXF when there is unchecked NPE > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CXF-4684 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-4684 > Project: CXF > Issue Type: Bug > Components: WS-* Components > Affects Versions: 2.6.2 > Reporter: Bin Zhu > Assignee: Aki Yoshida > Fix For: 2.5.8, 2.6.5, 2.7.2 > > Attachments: CXF-4684.patch > > > When there is unchecked NPE thrown, the SOAPFault in CXF will only throw the > "Fault occurred while processing." message rather than the original NPE > message. > Analysis: > 1. In org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.interceptor.Soap11FaultOutInterceptor and > org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.interceptor.Soap12FaultOutInterceptor, > It will check fault.getMessage() : > if (fault.getMessage() != null) { > if (message.get("forced.faultstring") != null) { > writer.writeCharacters((String) > message.get("forced.faultstring")); > } else { > writer.writeCharacters(fault.getMessage()); > } > } else { > writer.writeCharacters("Fault occurred while > processing."); > } > But for NPE, the fault.getMessage() will return null instead of the > "java.lang.NullPointerException" in the getMessage() in NPE. > 2. > Fault.getMessage will return null in the NPE scenario while it's super class > Throwable will not. > When there is NPE, the message attribute in Fault is null while the > detailMessageAtrribute is "java.lang.NullPointerException". > Details: > SoapFault->Fault->UncheckedException->RuntimeException->Exception->Throwable. > // SoapFault->Fault means SoapFault class extends Fault class > UncheckedException.getMessage: > public String getMessage() { > if (null != message) { > return message.toString(); > } > return null; > } > Throwable.getMessage: > public String getMessage() { > return detailMessage; > } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira