Adding credential-reference with non-exist alias to authentication-configuration through CLI results to NPE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFCORE-2942 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-2942 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Security Affects Versions: 3.0.0.Beta23 Reporter: Ondrej Lukas Assignee: Lin Gao Priority: Critical Labels: user_experience When Elytron authentication-configuration is added with credential-reference with non-exist alias through CLI then it results to NullPointerException. See: {code} /subsystem=elytron/credential-store=cs:add(location=cs.jceks,create=true,relative-to=jboss.server.data.dir,credential-reference={clear-text=pass}) /subsystem=elytron/credential-store=cs:add-alias(alias=exist,secret-value=pass) /subsystem=elytron/authentication-configuration=cfg1:add(credential-reference={store=cs,alias=exist}) {"outcome" => "success"} /subsystem=elytron/authentication-configuration=cfg2:add(credential-reference={store=cs,alias=nonexist}) { "outcome" => "failed", "failure-description" => {"WFLYCTL0080: Failed services" => {"org.wildfly.security.authentication-configuration.cfg2" => "Failed to start service Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.NullPointerException Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException"}}, "rolled-back" => true } {code} NPE in server log: {code} ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-8) MSC000001: Failed to start service org.wildfly.security.authentication-configuration.cfg2: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service org.wildfly.security.authentication-configuration.cfg2: Failed to start service at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1978) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.wildfly.extension.elytron.AuthenticationClientDefinitions$1.lambda$getValueSupplier$17(AuthenticationClientDefinitions.java:364) at java.util.function.Function.lambda$andThen$5(Function.java:88) at org.wildfly.extension.elytron.AuthenticationClientDefinitions$1.lambda$getValueSupplier$18(AuthenticationClientDefinitions.java:370) at org.wildfly.extension.elytron.TrivialService.start(TrivialService.java:53) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2032) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1955) ... 3 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.wildfly.extension.elytron.AuthenticationClientDefinitions$1.lambda$getValueSupplier$17(AuthenticationClientDefinitions.java:359) ... 8 more {code}