read-resource-children(include-aliases=true) can return phantom results if another resource exists with the same key -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFCORE-692 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-692 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Domain Management Affects Versions: 1.0.0.CR3 Reporter: Paul Ferraro Assignee: Brian Stansberry Just because an alias is registered doesn't mean a child resource necessarily exists at the target address. The handler needs to validate that a resource actually exists at the target address rather than assuming it does. This causes read-resource(recursive=true, include-aliases=true) to fail. Here's an example: I have a alias registered that translates: {noformat}/subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=*/local-cache=*/file-store=FILE_STORE{noformat} to: {noformat}/subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=*/local-cache=*/store=file{noformat} If I create a cache without a file cache store (which is perfectly valid), the corresponding read-resource operation returns a child for file-store=FILE_STORE, even though it returns no child for file=store (the target address), since no such child resource exists. This is very problematic, since it makes aliases impossible to use if the target child resource is not always present.