[jira] [Commented] (AMQ-4428) Don't swallow errors in IntrospectionSupport.setProperty

["Erik Bunn (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Erik Bunn commented on AMQ-4428:
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An example of where this swallowed Throwable produced considerable headache.

An embedded Broker's timeout options were not being set as expected. The first suspect was documentation wiki/code mismatch (FailoverTransport backoffMultiplier vs. reconnectDelayExponent), but this wasn't the real culprit: IntrospectionSupport has a static init of a third-party library, which had been missed by us while minimizing libraries for the embed. The IntrospectionSupport.setProperty() catch silently swallows the informative exception.

I would second #2, above. 
Further, I would suggest catching qualified exceptions rather than Throwable, which risks silencing possible fatal errors (OOM). 


                
> Don't swallow errors in IntrospectionSupport.setProperty
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AMQ-4428
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4428
>             Project: ActiveMQ
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Christoffer Sawicki
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: 0001-Log-errors-in-IntrospectionSupport.setProperty.patch
>
>
> `setProperty` currently ends with `… catch (Throwable ignore) \{ return false; \}`. This can make troubleshooting invalid configuration much harder since the exception (that contains detailed information) is hidden from the user.

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