[jira] Resolved: (BEANUTILS-373) CLONE - MethodUtils is not thread safe because WeakFastHashMap which uses WeakHashMap is not thread-safe.

["Niall Pemberton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-373?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Niall Pemberton resolved BEANUTILS-373.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.8.3

Doh! Must have had a brain fart when I applied the fix for BEANUTILS-318.

Thanks, this is now fixed:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=926112&view=rev

> CLONE - MethodUtils is not thread safe because WeakFastHashMap which uses WeakHashMap is not thread-safe.
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>
>                 Key: BEANUTILS-373
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-373
>             Project: Commons BeanUtils
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Bean / Property Utils
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.2
>         Environment: Weblogic 9.2 on Linux, but should not be relevant
>            Reporter: Andrew Sunde
>            Assignee: Niall Pemberton
>             Fix For: 1.8.3
>
>
> The problem lies in the class org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils. This class is keeping a global cache in a non synchronized WeakFastHashMap (which claims to be syncronized). When operating in Fast mode (which is what the WeakFastHashMap is set to after it is created), it then access the underlining WeakHashMap without synchronization. Therefore this can lead to a corruption in the underlining HashMap.
> See the description of the WeakHashMap javadoc:
> From Java Sun: "
> Like most collection classes, this class is not synchronized. A synchronized WeakHashMap may be constructed using the Collections.synchronizedMap  method. 
> ....
> The behavior of the WeakHashMap class depends in part upon the actions of the garbage collector, so several familiar (though not required) Map invariants do not hold for this class. Because the garbage collector may discard keys at any time, a WeakHashMap may behave as though an unknown thread is silently removing entries.
> "
> Therefore even if you are doing a "get" from the hashmap, there is a chance that you could get a corrupted hashmap because the garbage collector could be changing the hashmap on the fly. This could lead to threads getting stuck in an infinite loop.
> The modification to make the MethodUtils cache thread safe is a one line change. 
> Before: 
> private static WeakFastHashMap cache = new WeakFastHashMap();
> After: 
> private static Map cache = Collections.synchronizedMap(new WeakHashMap());

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