web.xml parser process cannot handle exception for xml file which does not have the encoding attribute ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: WFLY-4441 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4441 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 9.0.0.Alpha1 Reporter: Tomas Hofman Assignee: Tomas Hofman Description copied from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184292 Description of problem: When XMLStreamException occurs by web.xml parser process for xml file which does not have the encoding attribute, e.getLocation()[1] is null. We cannot find cause of exception by NullPointerException. [1] - org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebParsingDeploymentProcessor.java #115 } catch (XMLStreamException e) { -> #116 throw new DeploymentUnitProcessingException(MESSAGES.failToParseXMLDescriptor(webXml, e.getLocation().getLineNumber(), e.getLocation().getColumnNumber()), e); #117 } catch (IOException e) { #118 throw new DeploymentUnitProcessingException(MESSAGES.failToParseXMLDescriptor(webXml), e); #119 } Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): EAP 6.3.2 How reproducible: Attached web.xml for reproducing. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create war application using attached web.xml. 2. Deploy war to EAP. 3. Start EAP. Actual results: You can confirm NullPointerException. 15:56:23,190 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."test.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test.war".PARSE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "test.war" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:166) [jboss-as-server-7.4.2.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.2.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1980) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1913) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_71] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_71] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.7.0_71] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebParsingDeploymentProcessor.deploy(WebParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:116) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:159) [jboss-as-server-7.4.2.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.2.Final-redhat-2] ... 5 more