[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-6656) Exception logging

["Ding Yuan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6656?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ding Yuan updated CASSANDRA-6656:
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    Attachment: trunk-6656.txt

> Exception logging
> -----------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6656
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6656
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core, Tools
>            Reporter: Ding Yuan
>             Fix For: 2.0.4
>
>         Attachments: trunk-6656.txt
>
>
> Reporting a few cases where informative exceptions can be silently swallowed. Attaching a proposed patch. 
> =========================
> Case 1
>   Line: 95, File: "org/apache/cassandra/utils/Hex.java"
> An actual failure in the underlying constructor will be lost.
> Propose to log it.
>             try
>             {
>                 s = stringConstructor.newInstance(0, c.length, c);
> +           }
> +           catch (InvocationTargetException ite) {
> +               // The underlying constructor failed. Unwrapping the exception.
> +               logger.info("Underlying constructor throws exception: ", ite.getCause());
>             }
>             catch (Exception e)
>             {
>                 // Swallowing as we'll just use a copying constructor
>             }
>         return s == null ? new String(c) : s;
> ==========================================
> =========================
> Case 2
>   Line: 192, File: "org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal/DynamicCompositeType.java"
> The actual cause of comparator error can be lost as it can fail in multiple locations.
>         AbstractType<?> comparator = null;
>         int header = getShortLength(bb);
>         if ((header & 0x8000) == 0)
>         {
>             ByteBuffer value = getBytes(bb, header);
>             try
>             {
>                 comparator = TypeParser.parse(ByteBufferUtil.string(value));
>             }
>             catch (Exception e)
>             {
>                 <--- can fail here
>                 // we'll deal with this below since comparator == null
>             }
>         }
>         else
>         {
>             comparator = aliases.get((byte)(header & 0xFF));
>                 <--- can fail here
>         }
>         if (comparator == null)
>             throw new MarshalException("Cannot find comparator for component " + i);
> Propose to log the exception.
> ==========================================
> =========================
> Case 3
>   Line: 239, File: "org/apache/cassandra/tools/NodeProbe.java"
> Exception ignored in finally. Propose log them with debug or trace.
> 232:         finally
> 233:         {
> 234:             try
> 235:             {
> 236:                 ssProxy.removeNotificationListener(runner);
> 236:                 ssProxy.removeNotificationListener(runner);
> 237:                 jmxc.removeConnectionNotificationListener(runner);
> 238:             }
> 239:             catch (Throwable ignored) {}
> 240:         }
> Similar case is at line 264 in the same file.
> ==========================================



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