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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com> on 2003/02/06 19:37:39 UTC
Phoenix crash from Xerces exception parsing malformed characters

Than you for your report.

The code doesn't even get to James.  It crashes in Phoenix, which gets the
exception from Xerces.  I agree that we want Phoenix to be rather more
graceful about its exception reports.  Xerces is correctly throwing the
exception, since your characters were malformed.

I am cc'ing avalon-dev@ on this message.  If you do not hear back from them,
please take a moment to generate a bugzilla report against Phoenix.

	--- Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Randahl Fink Isaksen [mailto:randahl@rockit.dk]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:20
To: 'James Users List'
Subject: Found a James bug (reproducable) - RE: How to make James send
error notification to postmaster


I did some more testing on the NotifyPostmaster mailet. It turns out
that the reason for the crash was that I accidently used Danish
characters in the notice parameter - they should of course have been
escaped with sequences like "&aelig;", "&oelig;", and "&aring;".

However, I really consider it a bug for James to crash on a simple thing
like this. In my opinion, it would be proper for it to show some of the
parser's messages like "Illegal character encountered. Line 82,
character 23". Other popular open source products like JBoss output
similar messages. Below you will find the stack trace which was all I
got on the console. The message it provides simply states that somewhere
in the config file there is an error - that certainly could be more
specific, if you ask me.


Yours

Randahl




Phoenix 4.0.1

There was an uncaught exception:
---------------------------------------------------------
--- Message ---
Error building configuration from
file:/C:/james-2.1/apps/james/SAR-INF/config.x
ml.
--- Stack Trace ---
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.interfaces.DeploymentException: Error building
configu
ration from file:/C:/james-2.1/apps/james/SAR-INF/config.xml.
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.getConf
igurationFor(DefaultDeployer.java:499)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.deploy(
DefaultDeployer.java:325)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF
ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:498)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF
ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:491)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF
iles(DefaultEmbeddor.java:476)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployD
efaultApplications(DefaultEmbeddor.java:466)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.execute
(DefaultEmbeddor.java:224)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.run(CLIMain.java:158)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.execute(CLIMain.java:144)

        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.main(CLIMain.java:102)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.startup(Main.java:94)
        at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:46)
Caused by: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: invalid byte 2 of 3-byte
UTF-8 sequen
ce (0xf8)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(UTF8Reader.java:678)

        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(UTF8Reader.java:389)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager$EntityScanner.load(XMLEntityM
anager.java:3257)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager$EntityScanner.scanContent(XML
EntityManager.java:2371)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanContent(XML
DocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:829)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent
Dispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1387)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XM
LDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:333)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav
a:524)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav
a:580)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.j
ava:1169)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu
ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:129)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu
ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:116)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu
ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:97)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.getConf
igurationFor(DefaultDeployer.java:493)
        ... 15 more
rethrown from
java.io.UTFDataFormatException: invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence
(0xf8)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(UTF8Reader.java:678)

        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(UTF8Reader.java:389)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager$EntityScanner.load(XMLEntityM
anager.java:3257)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager$EntityScanner.scanContent(XML
EntityManager.java:2371)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanContent(XML
DocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:829)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent
Dispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1387)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XM
LDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:333)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav
a:524)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.jav
a:580)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.j
ava:1169)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu
ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:129)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu
ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:116)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.bu
ild(ConfigurationBuilder.java:97)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.getConf
igurationFor(DefaultDeployer.java:493)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.deployer.DefaultDeployer.deploy(
DefaultDeployer.java:325)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF
ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:498)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF
ile(DefaultEmbeddor.java:491)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployF
iles(DefaultEmbeddor.java:476)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.deployD
efaultApplications(DefaultEmbeddor.java:466)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.components.embeddor.DefaultEmbeddor.execute
(DefaultEmbeddor.java:224)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.run(CLIMain.java:158)
        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.execute(CLIMain.java:144)

        at
org.apache.avalon.phoenix.frontends.CLIMain.main(CLIMain.java:102)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.startup(Main.java:94)
        at org.apache.avalon.phoenix.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:46)


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