Kim Johan Andersson created CXF-8590:
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             Summary: First invocation of method causes NPE failure in 
neethi.PolicyBuilder
                 Key: CXF-8590
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-8590
             Project: CXF
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core, WS-* Components
    Affects Versions: 3.4.4
            Reporter: Kim Johan Andersson


I have a multithreaded application where each thread does the following:
new SomeService
 .getPort()
 .invokeSomeEndpointMethod()
 
The first invocation of the endpoint method cases the following error:

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
 at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
 at 
org.apache.neethi.builders.converters.ConverterRegistry.findQName(ConverterRegistry.java:121)
 at 
org.apache.neethi.PolicyBuilder.processOperationElement(PolicyBuilder.java:204)
 at org.apache.neethi.PolicyBuilder.getPolicyOperator(PolicyBuilder.java:174)
 at org.apache.neethi.PolicyBuilder.getPolicy(PolicyBuilder.java:124)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.wsdl11.Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.getElementPolicy(Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.java:192)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.wsdl11.Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.getElementPolicy(Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.java:168)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.wsdl11.Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.getElementPolicy(Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.java:161)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.wsdl11.Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.getEffectivePolicy(Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.java:75)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyEngineImpl.getAggregatedServicePolicy(PolicyEngineImpl.java:461)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.EndpointPolicyImpl.initializePolicy(EndpointPolicyImpl.java:151)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.EndpointPolicyImpl.initialize(EndpointPolicyImpl.java:140)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyEngineImpl.createEndpointPolicyInfo(PolicyEngineImpl.java:614)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyEngineImpl.getEndpointPolicy(PolicyEngineImpl.java:326)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyEngineImpl.getClientEndpointPolicy(PolicyEngineImpl.java:313)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyDataEngineImpl.getClientEndpointPolicy(PolicyDataEngineImpl.java:61)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.updateClientPolicy(HTTPConduit.java:326)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.updateClientPolicy(HTTPConduit.java:346)
 at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.getClient(HTTPConduit.java:892)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.configureConduitFromEndpointInfo(HTTPConduit.java:368)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.finalizeConfig(HTTPConduit.java:448)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPTransportFactory.getConduit(HTTPTransportFactory.java:249)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapTransportFactory.getConduit(SoapTransportFactory.java:226)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapTransportFactory.getConduit(SoapTransportFactory.java:233)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.endpoint.AbstractConduitSelector.createConduit(AbstractConduitSelector.java:144)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.endpoint.AbstractConduitSelector.getSelectedConduit(AbstractConduitSelector.java:108)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.endpoint.UpfrontConduitSelector.prepare(UpfrontConduitSelector.java:63)
 at 
org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.prepareConduitSelector(ClientImpl.java:887)
 at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.doInvoke(ClientImpl.java:525)
 at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:441)
 at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:356)
 at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:314)
 at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy.invokeSync(ClientProxy.java:96)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:140)
...
 at 
org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:573)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredElementNSImpl.synchronizeData(DeferredElementNSImpl.java:108)
 at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementNSImpl.getLocalName(ElementNSImpl.java:338)
 at 
org.apache.neethi.builders.converters.AbstractDOMConverter.getQName(AbstractDOMConverter.java:43)
 ... 45 more
 
>From there on, everything works fine. The service in question uses policies, 
>and apparently policies are lazily initialized. 
The actual failure is triggered by a race condition causing ElementNSImpl from 
xerces to be being shared across threads as a consequence.

This happens in 
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.attachment.wsdl11.Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider.getElementPolicy,
 when the PolicyRegistry is consulted:

Policy policy = registry.lookup(id);
 if (policy == null) {
 try {
 policy = builder.getPolicy(e.getElement());
 
All threads will start building the missing policy, as there is nothing in the 
registry and no synchronization on a cache miss. Some thread wins the race and 
gets a usable result from e.getElement() and stores the result in the registry, 
the others hit the NPE-error.

I do not really understand all the internal workings, but I can cure this 
problem by changing the code snippet to:

synchronized (e.getElement()) {
 Policy policy = registry.lookup(id);
 if (policy == null) {
 try {
 policy = builder.getPolicy(e.getElement());
 
 ...
 }
 
That solves the race to initialize the entry in the registry, but not the real 
problem.

This leaves me with 3 questions:
Is there a way to eagerly populate the PolicyRegistry as an user of CXF?
Shouldn't Wsdl11AttachmentPolicyProvider be thread safe, if policies are to be 
lazily initialized?
How do we prevent the WSDLManager in the Service from sharing non-tread safe 
items (ElementNSImpl) across threads? 
Apparently org.apache.cxf.jaxws.ServiceImpl.initialize always selects the same 
bus, which cases the WSDLManager to be shared between threads. Normally that 
would be a good thing, since we can share the WSDL-cache.

I tried to build a test-case, so far I have no luck in building the required 
configuration. Also, which submodule is to blame here? A lot of components are 
involved.
Please ask for more details if required.

Thanks,
 Kim Johan Andersson

 

 



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