Misconfigured SASL protocol can fail with NPE --------------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-1849 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1849 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Vojtech Juranek Assignee: Tristan Tarrant Priority: Optional Fix For: 3.4.5, 3.5 Misconfigured JGroups SASL protocol (e.g. mech is not specified) can result into NPE: {noformat} Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jgroups.auth.sasl.SaslUtils.getSaslServerFactory(SaslUtils.java:118) [jgroups.jar:3.5.0.Beta7] at org.jgroups.protocols.SASL.init(SASL.java:178) [jgroups.jar:3.5.0.Beta7] at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.initProtocolStack(ProtocolStack.java:861) [jgroups.jar:3.5.0.Beta7] at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.setup(ProtocolStack.java:481) [jgroups.jar:3.5.0.Beta7] at org.jgroups.JChannel.init(JChannel.java:849) [jgroups.jar:3.5.0.Beta7] at org.jgroups.JChannel.<init>(JChannel.java:159) [jgroups.jar:3.5.0.Beta7] at org.jgroups.JChannel.<init>(JChannel.java:129) [jgroups.jar:3.5.0.Beta7] at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.buildChannel(JGroupsTransport.java:373) [infinispan-core.jar:7.0.0-SNAPSHOT] ... 124 more {noformat} It should fail more gracefully, e.g. throw some custom exception with details what's wrong with configuration.