I'm using the latest drools and drools flow snapshot with jpa persistence. When I'm retracting a fact from the knowledge session (which causes logical retraction), the session can't be persisted any more. During retraction a LogicalRetractCallback is instantiated using this constructor: public LogicalRetractCallback(final TruthMaintenanceSystem tms, final LogicalDependency node, final Set set, final InternalFactHandle handle, final PropagationContext context, final Activation activation) { this.tms = tms; this.node = node; this.set = set; this.handle = handle; this.context = context; } As you can see an activation object can be passed (and actually is passed) to the constructor, but is never used. Retraction works though. The problem occurs when the knowledge session is persisted, because LogicalRetractCallback.write assumes that activation is not null, which leads to this npe: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException org.drools.common.TruthMaintenanceSystem$LogicalRetractCallback.write(TruthMaintenanceSystem.java:251) org.drools.marshalling.impl.OutputMarshaller.writeActionQueue(OutputMarshaller.java:201)

Chris, I will look into this problem, but I am not sure how to reproduce it. Maybe you can provide me a test case? If so, please open a JIRA, attached your test case and ping me. Thanks, Edson 2010/8/10 Chris Raschl <c.raschl(a)dyless.com <mailto:c.raschl@dyless.com>> Hi, Just in case someone faces the same problem, comments inline: Am 05.08.2010 13:53, schrieb Chris Raschl: > I'm using the latest drools and drools flow snapshot with jpa persistence. > > When I'm retracting a fact from the knowledge session (which causes > logical retraction), the session can't be persisted any more. > > During retraction a LogicalRetractCallback is instantiated using this > constructor: > > public LogicalRetractCallback(final TruthMaintenanceSystem tms, > final LogicalDependency node, > final Set set, > final InternalFactHandle handle, > final PropagationContext context, > final Activation activation) { > this.tms = tms; > this.node = node; > this.set = set; > this.handle = handle; > this.context = context; > } > > As you can see an activation object can be passed (and actually is > passed) to the constructor, but is never used. Retraction works though. > > The problem occurs when the knowledge session is persisted, because > LogicalRetractCallback.write assumes that activation is not null, which > leads to this npe: > > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > org.drools.common.TruthMaintenanceSystem$LogicalRetractCallback.write(TruthMaintenanceSystem.java:251) > org.drools.marshalling.impl.OutputMarshaller.writeActionQueue(OutputMarshaller.java:201) Adding this.activation = activation to the constructor does not help, beause the npe in the write method remains. I tried it, then the whole expression "context.terminalTupleMap.get( this.activation.getTuple() )" in the write method evaluates to null... I found out persistence was triggered by an unneccessary flush in my code. I removed that, everything works now. That seems to be the case because the action queue is empty then and there's no need to persist it, thus the write method is never called. I guess the problem remains if someone tries to persist a session with an action queue containing a LogicalRetractCallback object. - chris _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users -- Edson Tirelli JBoss Drools Core Development JBoss by Red Hat @ www.jboss.com <http://www.jboss.com> _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users