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[jira] [Commented] (WW-3689) NullPointerException coming from Settings / LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider (thread-safety issue?)

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3689?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13665054#comment-13665054 ] 

Hudson commented on WW-3689:
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Integrated in Struts2-JDK6 #710 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Struts2-JDK6/710/])
    WW-3689 Adds synchronized block with global lock to avoid NPE (Revision 1485576)

     Result = SUCCESS
lukaszlenart : 
Files : 
* /struts/struts2/trunk/core/src/main/java/org/apache/struts2/config/LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider.java
* /struts/struts2/trunk/core/src/main/java/org/apache/struts2/config/Settings.java

                
> NullPointerException coming from Settings / LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider (thread-safety issue?)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WW-3689
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3689
>             Project: Struts 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.14, 2.2.3.1
>         Environment: Any; multi-core machines tend to demonstrate the problem more readily though.
>            Reporter: James Abley
>            Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
>             Fix For: 2.3.15
>
>         Attachments: WW-3689-locked-initialisation.patch
>
>
> When running a load test, we intermittently see failures with this stack trace (the line numbers are for 2.0.14, but we also see this with 2.2.3.1):
> {noformat}
> Exception in thread "MultiThreadTestRunner-5" java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at org.apache.struts2.config.Settings.get(Settings.java:175)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.config.Settings.getDefaultInstance(Settings.java:293)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.config.Settings.getInstance(Settings.java:109)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.config.LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider.register(LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider.java:67)
> 	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration.reload(DefaultConfiguration.java:131)
> 	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:52)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init_PreloadConfiguration(Dispatcher.java:395)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init(Dispatcher.java:452)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:205)
> 	at com.example.platform.test.servlet.OurServlet.handleRequest(OurServlet.java:64)
> {noformat}
> or
> {noformat}
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at org.apache.struts2.config.LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider.loadSettings(LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider.java:86)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.config.LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider.register(LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider.java:69)
> 	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration.reload(DefaultConfiguration.java:131)
> 	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:52)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init_PreloadConfiguration(Dispatcher.java:395)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init(Dispatcher.java:452)
> 	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:205)
> {noformat}
> Our suspicion is that the initialisation isn't thread-safe; we've not seen this failure on older, single-processor / single-core machines.

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