Herman Post created JBRULES-3388: ------------------------------------ Summary: KnowledgeAgent custom classloader not working for PKG resources Key: JBRULES-3388 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-3388 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: drools-core Affects Versions: 5.3.1.Final Environment: Windows 7, Java7-5, JBoss AS7.1 Reporter: Herman Post Assignee: Mark Proctor I believe there may be a bug when trying to use a custom class loader with the KnowledgeAgent and the KnowledgeBuilderConfiguration, and when the ChangeSet is a PKG resource. I have been trying to get the knowledge-agent-classloader sample from the new Drools Cookbook to work with a PKG resource. The sample works fine for a DRL resource, but when I convert it to use my fact jar, and a PKG resource containing my rules, which I downloaded from Guvnor, it throws a ClassNotFoundException for my fact model. If I put my fact model in the classpath, the error goes away and my rules can be added to the KnowledgeAgent and run correctly. Following is the code from the sample that I have converted, and I have attached a zip file with a complete project demonstrating the problem. Also, I can get my rules and fact model to work if I use a DRL ChangeSet.knowledge-agent-classloader.zip URL modelJarURL = getClass().getResource("Patient-1.0.jar"); URLClassLoader customURLClassloader = new URLClassLoader(new URL[] {modelJarURL }); KnowledgeBuilderConfiguration kbuilderConfig = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilderConfiguration(null, customURLClassloader); KnowledgeBaseConfiguration kbaseConfig = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBaseConfiguration(null, customURLClassloader); KnowledgeBase kbase = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBase(kbaseConfig); KnowledgeAgentConfiguration aconf = KnowledgeAgentFactory.newKnowledgeAgentConfiguration(); KnowledgeAgent kagent = KnowledgeAgentFactory.newKnowledgeAgent("test", kbase, aconf, kbuilderConfig); // kagent.applyChangeSet(new ClassPathResource("change-set.xml", getClass())); // this goes with model.jar // kagent.applyChangeSet(new ClassPathResource("drl-change-set.xml", getClass())); // this goes with Patient.jar kagent.applyChangeSet(new ClassPathResource("pkg-change-set.xml", getClass())); // this goes with Patient.jar return kagent.getKnowledgeBase(); Following is the stack trace from the error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.drools.impl.KnowledgeBaseImpl.addKnowledgePackages(KnowledgeBaseImpl.java:148) at org.drools.agent.impl.KnowledgeAgentImpl.addResourcesToKnowledgeBase(KnowledgeAgentImpl.java:1016) at org.drools.agent.impl.KnowledgeAgentImpl.rebuildResources(KnowledgeAgentImpl.java:785) at org.drools.agent.impl.KnowledgeAgentImpl.buildKnowledgeBase(KnowledgeAgentImpl.java:657) at org.drools.agent.impl.KnowledgeAgentImpl.applyChangeSet(KnowledgeAgentImpl.java:190) at org.drools.agent.impl.KnowledgeAgentImpl.applyChangeSet(KnowledgeAgentImpl.java:169) at drools.cookbook.chapter02.KnowledgeAgentClassloaderTest.createKnowledgeBase(KnowledgeAgentClassloaderTest.java:59) at drools.cookbook.chapter02.KnowledgeAgentClassloaderTest.customClassloaderTest(KnowledgeAgentClassloaderTest.java:30) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestMethod.invoke(TestMethod.java:59) at org.junit.internal.runners.MethodRoadie.runTestMethod(MethodRoadie.java:98) at org.junit.internal.runners.MethodRoadie$2.run(MethodRoadie.java:79) at org.junit.internal.runners.MethodRoadie.runBeforesThenTestThenAfters(MethodRoadie.java:87) at org.junit.internal.runners.MethodRoadie.runTest(MethodRoadie.java:77) at org.junit.internal.runners.MethodRoadie.run(MethodRoadie.java:42) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit4ClassRunner.invokeTestMethod(JUnit4ClassRunner.java:88) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit4ClassRunner.runMethods(JUnit4ClassRunner.java:51) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit4ClassRunner$1.run(JUnit4ClassRunner.java:44) at org.junit.internal.runners.ClassRoadie.runUnprotected(ClassRoadie.java:27) at org.junit.internal.runners.ClassRoadie.runProtected(ClassRoadie.java:37) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit4ClassRunner.run(JUnit4ClassRunner.java:42) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197) I have been having the exact same problem when trying to use a custom class loader with just a KnowldegeBuilder and no KnowledgeAgent. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. 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