[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-3147) spec-descriptor-property-replacement causes NPE while parsing exclude element in beans.xml

spec-descriptor-property-replacement causes NPE while parsing exclude element in beans.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: WFLY-3147 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-3147 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: CDI / Weld, EE Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Final Reporter: Maxim Frolov Assignee: Stuart Douglas A CDI Bean Archive with a _beans.xml_ which contains {{beans/scan/*exclude*}} XML element causes {{NullPointerExcpetion}} during deployment on server with enabled {{<spec-descriptor-property-replacement>}} parameter in server's _standalone.xml_. The error stack trace is: {noformat} 2014-03-21 11:22:52,455 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-11) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."example.ear"."example-ejb.jar".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."example.ear"."example-ejb.jar".PARSE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase PARSE of subdeployment "example-ejb.jar" of deployment "example.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:166) [wildfly-server-8.0.0.Final.jar:8.0.0.Final] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1948) [jboss-msc-1.2.0.Final.jar:1.2.0.Final] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1881) [jboss-msc-1.2.0.Final.jar:1.2.0.Final] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.weld.deployment.processors.BeansXmlProcessor.parseBeansXml(BeansXmlProcessor.java:140) at org.jboss.as.weld.deployment.processors.BeansXmlProcessor.deploy(BeansXmlProcessor.java:117) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:159) [wildfly-server-8.0.0.Final.jar:8.0.0.Final] ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.metadata.property.DefaultPropertyReplacer.replaceProperties(DefaultPropertyReplacer.java:52) at org.jboss.as.weld.deployment.PropertyReplacingBeansXmlHandler.interpolate(PropertyReplacingBeansXmlHandler.java:64) at org.jboss.weld.xml.BeansXmlHandler$4.processStartChildElement(BeansXmlHandler.java:229) at org.jboss.weld.xml.BeansXmlHandler.startElement(BeansXmlHandler.java:297) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.emptyElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.weld.xml.BeansXmlParser.parse(BeansXmlParser.java:93) at org.jboss.as.weld.deployment.processors.BeansXmlProcessor.parseBeansXml(BeansXmlProcessor.java:136) ... 7 more {noformat}