I'm running into an issue with the REST API in Zeppelin 0.6.0 that I did not experience using the same exact workflow on Zeppelin 0.5.6.
When I call a method that takes a message body (i.e., POSTs and PUTs), I get an NPE in the Zeppelin server. Somehow the message String being passed to the API methods is always an empty string, causing GSON to deserialize it into a null reference, ultimately resulting in an NPE soon afterward. I have not yet figured out how and why the message is ending up as an empty string but am looking into that now. I have reproduced this with both InterpreterRestApi.updateSetting() (which uses a PUT) and NotebookRestApi.createNote() (which uses a POST). I am calling the API by writing a JSON object to a file, then passing it to curl with -XPOST (or -XPUT) --data @file.json. e.g., % cat deps/settings.json { "dependencies": [ { "groupArtifactVersion": "/tmp/zeppelin/deps/commons-csv-1.1.jar", "local": true }, { "groupArtifactVersion": "/tmp/zeppelin/deps/spark-csv_2.10-1.3.0.jar", "local": true } ] } % curl -s -XPUT --data @/tmp/zeppelin/deps/settings.json http://localhost:8080/interpreter/setting/2BS95QDGK The resulting NPE (which I find in the Zeppelin server logs) looks like the following: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.cleanup(AdviceFilter.java:196) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.java:148) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:125) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:66) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AbstractShiroFilter.executeChain(AbstractShiroFilter.java:449) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AbstractShiroFilter$1.call(AbstractShiroFilter.java:365) at org.apache.shiro.subject.support.SubjectCallable.doCall(SubjectCallable.java:90) at org.apache.shiro.subject.support.SubjectCallable.call(SubjectCallable.java:83) at org.apache.shiro.subject.support.DelegatingSubject.execute(DelegatingSubject.java:383) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AbstractShiroFilter.doFilterInternal(AbstractShiroFilter.java:362) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:125) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.apache.zeppelin.server.CorsFilter.doFilter(CorsFilter.java:72) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:585) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:577) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:223) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:215) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.AbstractFaultChainInitiatorObserver.onMessage(AbstractFaultChainInitiatorObserver.java:116) at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:333) at org.apache.cxf.transport.ChainInitiationObserver.onMessage(ChainInitiationObserver.java:121) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.AbstractHTTPDestination.invoke(AbstractHTTPDestination.java:239) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invokeDestination(ServletController.java:248) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invoke(ServletController.java:222) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invoke(ServletController.java:153) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFNonSpringServlet.invoke(CXFNonSpringServlet.java:167) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractHTTPServlet.handleRequest(AbstractHTTPServlet.java:286) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractHTTPServlet.doPut(AbstractHTTPServlet.java:223) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:598) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractHTTPServlet.service(AbstractHTTPServlet.java:262) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1669) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:61) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.java:108) at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.java:137) ... 30 more Caused by: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.createFault(AbstractInvoker.java:162) at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.invoke(AbstractInvoker.java:128) at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.JAXRSInvoker.invoke(JAXRSInvoker.java:192) at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.JAXRSInvoker.invoke(JAXRSInvoker.java:100) at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.ServiceInvokerInterceptor$1.run(ServiceInvokerInterceptor.java:57) at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.ServiceInvokerInterceptor.handleMessage(ServiceInvokerInterceptor.java:93) at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:272) ... 45 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.zeppelin.rest.InterpreterRestApi.updateSetting(InterpreterRestApi.java:132) 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.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.performInvocation(AbstractInvoker.java:180) at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.invoke(AbstractInvoker.java:96) ... 50 more Is anybody else able to reproduce this? If it matters, though I doubt that it does for this issue, I am setting SPARK_HOME with a Scala 2.10-built version of Spark 1.6.2. Thank you, Jonathan