JBoss News Portlet - bad user input causes portlet to stop ---------------------------------------------------------- Key: SWAP-14 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/SWAP-14 Project: PortletSwap Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Portlets Affects Versions: PortletSwap 2.0 Environment: jboss-portal-2.2.1RC3 running on Windows Server 2003 JBoss News Portlet 2/14/06 Reporter: Rudy Keiser Assigned To: Roy Russo Fix For: PortletSwap 2.0 If a user enters an invalid RSS URL in edit mode on the News Portlet an uncaught exception is thrown stopping the portlet for that user. It appears that the preference is saved since the portlet is unavailable to that user after a restart of the portal server. 2006-06-13 13:20:15,781 ERROR [org.jboss.portlet.news.NewsPortlet] Fatal Error reading/parsing XML Source. 2006-06-13 13:20:15,781 ERROR [org.jboss.portlet.news.NewsPortlet] The portlet threw an exception javax.portlet.PortletException: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: www.cnn.com at org.jboss.portlet.news.NewsPortlet.doView(Unknown Source) at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.doDispatch(GenericPortlet.java:167) at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.render(GenericPortlet.java:407) at org.jboss.portal.portlet.PortletContainer.invokeRender(PortletContainer.java:521) at org.jboss.portal.portlet.PortletContainer.dispatch(PortletContainer.java:433) at org.jboss.portal.server.app.ComponentInvocation.dispatch(ComponentInvocation.java:79)