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Posted to httpclient-users@hc.apache.org by Yongxing Wang <yo...@yahoo.com> on 2009/06/03 19:12:50 UTC
NullPointerException in AsyncNHttpClientHandler
Hi,
We are using HTTP-NIO 4.0 to communicate with our internal http servers, on a very high volume bases (80Mbits/second on both upload and download). We use AsyncNHttpClientHandler and DefaultClientIOEventDispatch.
We are seeing some strange behaviors randomly. After putting some debug messages and we finally identify the following exception that causes us great sorrow:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.http.nio.protocol.AsyncNHttpClientHandler.outputReady(AsyncNHttpClientHandler.java:266)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.DefaultNHttpClientConnection.produceOutput(DefaultNHttpClientConnection.java:213)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.DefaultClientIOEventDispatch.outputReady(DefaultClientIOEventDispatch.java:152)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor.writable(BaseIOReactor.java:177)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.processEvent(AbstractIOReactor.java:317)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.processEvents(AbstractIOReactor.java:294)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.execute(AbstractIOReactor.java:256)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor.execute(BaseIOReactor.java:96)
at
org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor$Worker.run(AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor.java:556)
at
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
It happens randomly and happens with HTTP GET. Look at the line 266, it is:
int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
It seems that the "response" is returned prematurely.
This NullPointerException will propagate all the way up to IOReactorExceptionHandler "handle(RuntimeException ex);", where you only have two options, ignore it or shutdown the whole IoReactor (neither of the two is good for us). I guess the root problem is that we should never see that NPE.
Is there any more information I can provide to help address this problem?
thanks,
Yong
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Re: NullPointerException in AsyncNHttpClientHandler
Posted by Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>.
Yongxing Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using HTTP-NIO 4.0 to communicate with our internal http servers, on a very high volume bases (80Mbits/second on both upload and download). We use AsyncNHttpClientHandler and DefaultClientIOEventDispatch.
>
>
> We are seeing some strange behaviors randomly. After putting some debug messages and we finally identify the following exception that causes us great sorrow:
>
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> org.apache.http.nio.protocol.AsyncNHttpClientHandler.outputReady(AsyncNHttpClientHandler.java:266)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.DefaultNHttpClientConnection.produceOutput(DefaultNHttpClientConnection.java:213)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.DefaultClientIOEventDispatch.outputReady(DefaultClientIOEventDispatch.java:152)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor.writable(BaseIOReactor.java:177)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.processEvent(AbstractIOReactor.java:317)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.processEvents(AbstractIOReactor.java:294)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.execute(AbstractIOReactor.java:256)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor.execute(BaseIOReactor.java:96)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor$Worker.run(AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor.java:556)
> at
> java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
>
> It happens randomly and happens with HTTP GET. Look at the line 266, it is:
>
> int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
>
> It seems that the "response" is returned prematurely.
>
I think the line that causes NPE is this one
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core/httpcore-nio/xref/org/apache/http/nio/protocol/AsyncNHttpClientHandler.html#266
What seems obviously wrong is that AsyncNHttpClientHandler#outputReady
event gets triggered for a GET request. This is not supposed to happen
at all as GET requests are not supposed to enclose a content body.
However, this _could_ be caused by a race condition if multiple threads
were to access the same connection object simultaneously. HTTP
connections objects are NOT thread-safe. It is _strongly_ recommended
HTTP connections should NEVER be accessed ouside the
AsyncNHttpClientHandler events.
Thread safety issue would be my primary guess here, especially given the
fact the problems seems to happen randomly.
>
> This NullPointerException will propagate all the way up to IOReactorExceptionHandler "handle(RuntimeException ex);", where you only have two options, ignore it or shutdown the whole IoReactor (neither of the two is good for us). I guess the root problem is that we should never see that NPE.
>
>
> Is there any more information I can provide to help address this problem?
>
Yes, a test case reproducing the problem or some contextual information
would be great.
One can add some rudimentary wire / context logging to HttpCore NIO
using these classes:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/contrib/src/main/java/org/apache/http/contrib/logging/
Hope this helps somewhat.
Oleg
> thanks,
> Yong
>
>
>
>
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