[weld-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (WELD-531) Weld swallowing stacktrace in the case of multiple container errors

Weld swallowing stacktrace in the case of multiple container errors ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WELD-531 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/WELD-531 Project: Weld Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.0.1.Final Reporter: Dan Allen Assignee: Pete Muir Priority: Blocker When there are multiple container errors (for instance, definition errors at startup), Weld cycles through the errors and builds a localized message. However, it drops the cause of the exception. If the message is further up the chain (i.e., in the exception cause), this leads to exceptions such as: Exception #0: null The user is lost as to what the real problem is. Typically root causes are: - NoClassDefFoundError - NullPointerException The problem is not that the message is null. The problem is that the underlying cause is dropped. This came up recently when using Arquillian as reported in this forum post: https://community.jboss.org/message/544395#544395 When placed in a debugger, it turned out that a NoClassDefFoundError was being thrown. There was no way for the user to trace that to the source. I think that what Weld needs to do is follow the cause until it finds a non-null message.