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Posted to dev@velocity.apache.org by "Will Glass-Husain (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2005/09/18 22:56:54 UTC

[jira] Commented: (VELOCITY-383) Error processing the template

    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-383?page=comments#action_12329711 ] 

Will Glass-Husain commented on VELOCITY-383:
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That's really very strange.

Looking at the source code, it's looks like the context was null.  Are you creating a new context each time the page was parsed?  Or do you share it (or refresh it) between page parses.  

I'm wondering if this could be a race condition in your calling code that would result in a null or invalid context at exactly the wrong moment.

> Error processing the template
> -----------------------------
>
>          Key: VELOCITY-383
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-383
>      Project: Velocity
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Source
>     Versions: 1.4
>  Environment: Operating System: Windows XP
> Platform: PC
>     Reporter: Hans
>     Assignee: Velocity-Dev List
>     Priority: Critical

>
> During load testing the server, with 50 concurrent users, the 
> VelocityViewServlet would throw a null pointer exception about 3% of the time. 
> 97% of the time, the page would serve normally.
> Below is the trace:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.init
> (ASTDirective.java:94)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.init
> (SimpleNode.java:201)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.Template.initDocument(Template.java:199)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.Template.process(Template.java:124)
> 	at 
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.loadResource
> (ResourceManagerImpl.java:423)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.getResource
> (ResourceManagerImpl.java:341)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate
> (RuntimeInstance.java:831)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate
> (RuntimeInstance.java:813)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeSingleton.getTemplate
> (RuntimeSingleton.java:285)
> 	at 
> org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.getTemplate
> (VelocityViewServlet.java:540)
> 	at 
> org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.handleRequest
> (VelocityViewServlet.java:475)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doRequest
> (VelocityViewServlet.java:407)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doPost
> (VelocityViewServlet.java:383)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter
> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter
> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke
> (ApplicationDispatcher.java:674)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude
> (ApplicationDispatcher.java:576)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include
> (ApplicationDispatcher.java:501)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.ImportSupport.acquireString
> (ImportSupport.java:140)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool.doInsert
> (TilesTool.java:476)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool.doInsert
> (TilesTool.java:419)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool.processUrl
> (TilesTool.java:398)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool.processAsDefinitionOrURL
> (TilesTool.java:357)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool.processObjectValue
> (TilesTool.java:305)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool.get(TilesTool.java:135)
> 	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor136.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.GetExecutor.execute
> (GetExecutor.java:65)
> 	at 
> org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelGetterImpl.invoke
> (UberspectImpl.java:302)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIdentifier.execute
> (ASTIdentifier.java:157)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute
> (ASTReference.java:175)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render
> (ASTReference.java:220)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render
> (SimpleNode.java:230)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:256)
> 	at 
> org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.mergeTemplate
> (VelocityViewServlet.java:592)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doRequest
> (VelocityViewServlet.java:417)
> 	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doPost
> (VelocityViewServlet.java:383)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter
> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter
> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke
> (ApplicationDispatcher.java:674)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest
> (ApplicationDispatcher.java:465)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward
> (ApplicationDispatcher.java:400)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward
> (ApplicationDispatcher.java:303)
> 	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward
> (RequestProcessor.java:1063)
> 	at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward
> (TilesRequestProcessor.java:263)
> 	at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processTilesDefinition
> (TilesRequestProcessor.java:239)
> 	at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processForwardConfig
> (TilesRequestProcessor.java:302)
> 	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process
> (RequestProcessor.java:229)
> 	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process
> (ActionServlet.java:1194)
> 	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost
> (ActionServlet.java:432)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
> 	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter
> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter
> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke
> (StandardWrapperValve.java:214)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke
> (StandardContextValve.java:178)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke
> (StandardHostValve.java:126)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke
> (ErrorReportValve.java:105)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke
> (StandardEngineValve.java:107)
> 	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service
> (CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
> 	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process
> (Http11Processor.java:825)
> 	at 
> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnecti
> on(Http11Protocol.java:731)
> 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket
> (PoolTcpEndpoint.java:526)
> 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt
> (LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
> 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run
> (ThreadPool.java:684)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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