[jira] [Comment Edited] (SQOOP-1784) Sqoop2: Sending POST request to link or job end-point might end up with NPE

["Veena Basavaraj (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Veena Basavaraj edited comment on SQOOP-1784 at 11/23/14 9:45 PM:
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+ 1, saw this issue on friday evening myself too and had a tough time tracing this and the tests/ functionality from HUE break from this as well. How does the unit/ integration tests do not catch this. Quite a bit discomforting.


was (Author: vybs):
+ 1, saw this issue on friday evening myself too and had a tough time tracing this and the tests/ functionality from HUE break from this as well. How does the unit/ integration tests do not catch this. A bit discomforting.

> Sqoop2: Sending POST request to link or job end-point might end up with NPE
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>
>                 Key: SQOOP-1784
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1784
>             Project: Sqoop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.99.4
>            Reporter: Jarek Jarcec Cecho
>            Assignee: Jarek Jarcec Cecho
>             Fix For: 1.99.5
>
>         Attachments: SQOOP-1784.patch
>
>
> I was testing few patches on real cluster and noticed that creating link on current head of {{sqoop2}} branch can lead to NPE in {{LinkBean}}. I've traced the code and found out that {{[ctx.getRequest().getReader()|https://github.com/apache/sqoop/blob/sqoop2/server/src/main/java/org/apache/sqoop/handler/LinkRequestHandler.java#L114]}} is returning empty buffer and as a result the subsequent call to {{JSONValue.parse}} returns {{null}} and we hit {{NullPointerException}} later in {{LInkBean}}.
> This one was quite hard to crack, but I believe that I've isolated the problem. In SQOOP-1774 we've changed the way to get username from header to URL parameter and we're using {{[ServletRequest.getParameter()|https://github.com/apache/sqoop/blob/sqoop2/server/src/main/java/org/apache/sqoop/server/RequestContext.java#L121]}} method for that. Carefully reading it's [javadoc|https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/ServletRequest.html#getParameter(java.lang.String)] I found out that:
> {quote}
> If the parameter data was sent in the request body, such as occurs with an HTTP POST request, then reading the body directly via getInputStream() or getReader() can interfere with the execution of this method
> {quote}
> And hence I'm assuming that getting the username has processed the request body already and thus we got the eventual {{NullPointerException}}.



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