[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-3276) NPE thrown in SecurityContextAssociationValve.

[Jeremy Whiting (Created) (JIRA)]

NPE thrown in SecurityContextAssociationValve.
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                 Key: AS7-3276
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3276
             Project: Application Server 7
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Web
    Affects Versions: 7.1.0.CR1b
         Environment: On any platform running Java.
OpenJDK 6.
            Reporter: Jeremy Whiting
            Assignee: Remy Maucherat


 With a debugger attached to AS7 I am seeing a NullPointerException thrown in a JBoss implementation of a Valve. This happens on every web request that does not have a principle in the session. The exception type has never appeared in logs because it is caught and a generic message is displayed. 

 This affects the performance.

 Also the class uses the debugf logging method in the catch block. But does not pass in a format. A format is expected as the first parameter to the debugf method.

 Included with this JIRA is a patch to change the code so that null references are detected. The second change changes the logging method call to instead use debug. Whether it should be a error message rather than a debug is a different matter and this JIRA does not tackle the question.

Regards,
Jeremy


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