[rules-users] NPE in Drools JPA Persistence with rules that use Flow

Mauricio Salatino salaboy at gmail.com
Thu May 26 11:05:39 EDT 2011


Ok, assuming that your session is persistent, are your POJOs serializables?
Cheers

2011/5/26 Shannon Hastings <shannon.hastings at inventrio.com>

> Nope, no change, i am pulling the same drl from guvnor every time.  It only
> has three rules as show below in the thread. I can restore the session
> without error so long as the session does not have any facts in it.  Once I
> drop a fact in and store, then i cannot restore.
>
>
> On May 26, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Mauricio Salatino wrote:
>
> Ok, so did you check that you didn't change anything from the moment you
> store the ksession and the moment when you restore it?
> I usually find this problem when you change a rule and try to restore the
> session using the new version of the rule or when you change a business
> process definition or the session state from different threads. Can you
> check that please?
> You will find this unmarshalling problems and it will be very difficult to
> debug at that level, when the problem is being caused by some modification
> on your code. Greetings
>
> 2011/5/26 Shannon Hastings <shannon.hastings at inventrio.com>
>
>> I have debugged into this and found this issue.  The NPE comes when the
>> session unmarsheller runs into a node that does not have a sink or the sink
>> is null. In the debugger i can see the fact and the fact looks right, has
>> all the data from the pojo i sent in. However, it does not have a sink, but
>> it does have a node id.  This looks like a bug that was reportedly fixed
>> before in 5.1.  I dont know enough about the storing of the facts in the
>> working memory or the model that is being used under the hood, however, all
>> i have to do to create the problem is create a session, send an object to
>> it, and then try to restore it.  And the objects i am sending to it are
>> simple pojo's and in the debugger I can see that it was able to read them
>> back out just fine.  Below is an exerpt from the "InputMarshaller" class.
>>  In the debugger The readlefttuples operation shows the nodeId = 12 and the
>> sink  = null and the facthandleId = 1.  he it calls readLeftTuple() and the
>> obvious NPE will be thrown because the ParentLeftTuple has a null sink and
>> when you call "sink.getType()" you get the NPE.  Is this a known bug.
>>
>>   public static void readLeftTuples(MarshallerReaderContext context)
>> throws IOException,
>>
>> ClassNotFoundException {
>>         ObjectInputStream stream = context.stream;
>>
>>         while ( stream.readShort() == PersisterEnums.LEFT_TUPLE ) {
>>             int nodeId = stream.readInt();
>>             LeftTupleSink sink = (LeftTupleSink) context.sinks.get(
>> nodeId );
>>             int factHandleId = stream.readInt();
>>             LeftTuple leftTuple = new LeftTuple( context.handles.get(
>> factHandleId ),
>>                                                  sink,
>>                                                  true );
>>             readLeftTuple( leftTuple,
>>                            context );
>>         }
>>     }
>>
>>     public static void readLeftTuple(LeftTuple parentLeftTuple,
>>                                      MarshallerReaderContext context)
>> throws IOException,
>>
>> ClassNotFoundException {
>>         ObjectInputStream stream = context.stream;
>>         Map<Integer, BaseNode> sinks = context.sinks;
>>
>>         LeftTupleSink sink = parentLeftTuple.getLeftTupleSink();
>>
>>         switch ( sink.getType() ) {
>>
>>
>> On May 24, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Edson Tirelli wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Shannon,
>>
>>     What is the following method doing?
>>
>> engine.process(reading);
>>
>>     Can you please open a JIRA and attach your test case or point me to
>> the jira reporting this problem if it exists already?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>         Edson
>>
>>
>> 2011/5/23 Shannon Hastings <shannon.hastings at inventrio.com>
>>
>>> I am using drools 5.2.0.M2 and I still get this error:
>>>
>>> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>>> at
>>> org.drools.marshalling.impl.InputMarshaller.readLeftTuple(InputMarshaller.java:469)
>>>
>>> Which was reported on drools 5.1.0 JIRA and claimed to be fixed.  I see
>>> the error when trying to load a session that was persisted that had objects
>>> inserted that  are time depended and cause rules to fire that use terms from
>>> flow such as "after".  I only see this error if create a new session, submit
>>> some facts to it, close it, and then try to reload.  If i do not submit any
>>> facts to it I do not get the error.  I.E.  If all i do is create the KB with
>>> my rules I can reload a session from the DB no problem, but if i submit some
>>> facts and persist the session, then i cannot reload it.  This seems to be an
>>> issue with the JPA loading of the session that has facts in it that use Flow
>>> (JBPM).  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Below are my simple rules
>>> followed by the test code used to submit the facts:
>>>
>>> package com.inventrio.rules.readings
>>>
>>> import com.inventrio.healthmonitoring.model.*;
>>>
>>> declare Reading
>>>     @role(event)
>>>     @timestamp(readingTime)
>>> end
>>>
>>> rule "High Blood Pressure"
>>>  when
>>>  $eventA :  Reading(readingType.name == "BPMETER")
>>>  $systolic : Value( this.valueType.name == "SYSTOLIC"  ) from$eventA.values
>>>  $diastolic : Value( this.valueType.name == "DIASTOLIC"  ) from$eventA.values
>>>  eval( $systolic.getLongValue() > 180 && $diastolic.getLongValue() > 120
>>> )
>>>  then
>>>  System.out.println("HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE" );
>>> end
>>>
>>> rule "Weight Trending Up"
>>>  when
>>>  $eventC :  Reading(readingType.name == "WEIGHT" )
>>>  $eventB  : Reading( readingType.name == "WEIGHT" , this after[5s, 1m]
>>> $eventC )
>>>  $eventA  : Reading( readingType.name == "WEIGHT" , this after[5s, 1m]
>>> $eventB )
>>>  $weight3 : Value( this.valueType.name == "WEIGHT"  ) from$eventC.values
>>>  $weight2 : Value( this.valueType.name == "WEIGHT"  ) from$eventB.values
>>>  $weight1 : Value( this.valueType.name == "WEIGHT"  ) from$eventA.values
>>>  eval(  $weight3.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() <
>>> $weight2.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() + 1.0  &&
>>> $weight2.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() <
>>> $weight1.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() + 1.0 )
>>>  then
>>>  System.out.println("WEIGHT IS GOING UP" );
>>> end
>>>
>>> rule "Weight Trending Down"
>>>  when
>>>  $eventC :  Reading(readingType.name == "WEIGHT" )
>>>  $eventB  : Reading( readingType.name == "WEIGHT" , this after[5s, 1m]
>>> $eventC )
>>>  $eventA  : Reading( readingType.name == "WEIGHT" , this after[5s, 1m]
>>> $eventB )
>>>  $weight3 : Value( this.valueType.name == "WEIGHT"  ) from$eventC.values
>>>  $weight2 : Value( this.valueType.name == "WEIGHT"  ) from$eventB.values
>>>  $weight1 : Value( this.valueType.name == "WEIGHT"  ) from$eventA.values
>>>  eval(  $weight3.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() >
>>> $weight2.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() + 1.0  &&
>>> $weight2.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() >
>>> $weight1.getDoubleValue().doubleValue() + 1.0 )
>>>  then
>>>  System.out.println("WEIGHT IS GOING DOWN" );
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And next is my object i insert before closeing and then trying to reload
>>> the session.
>>>
>>>  public void testWeightRules() {
>>>  try {
>>>
>>>  Reading reading = new Reading();
>>> reading.setReadingTime(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
>>>  ReadingType type = new ReadingType();
>>>  type.setName("WEIGHT");
>>> type.setDescription("");
>>>  reading.setReadingType(type);
>>>  Value value = new Value();
>>> value.setDoubleValue(140.0);
>>>  ValueType valueType = new ValueType();
>>>  valueType.setName("WEIGHT");
>>> valueType.setDataType(ValueDataType.DOUBLE);
>>>  value.setValueType(valueType);
>>>  reading.getValues().add(value);
>>> reading.setReadingType(type);
>>>  engine.process(reading);
>>>
>>> Thread.sleep(7000);
>>>
>>> reading = new Reading();
>>>  reading.setReadingTime(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
>>>  type = new ReadingType();
>>> type.setName("WEIGHT");
>>>  type.setDescription("");
>>>  reading.setReadingType(type);
>>> value = new Value();
>>>  value.setDoubleValue(142.0);
>>>  valueType = new ValueType();
>>> valueType.setName("WEIGHT");
>>>  valueType.setDataType(ValueDataType.DOUBLE);
>>>  value.setValueType(valueType);
>>> reading.getValues().add(value);
>>>  reading.setReadingType(type);
>>>  engine.process(reading);
>>>
>>>  Thread.sleep(7000);
>>>
>>>  reading = new Reading();
>>> reading.setReadingTime(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
>>>  type = new ReadingType();
>>>  type.setName("WEIGHT");
>>> type.setDescription("");
>>>  reading.setReadingType(type);
>>>  value = new Value();
>>> value.setDoubleValue(144.0);
>>>  valueType = new ValueType();
>>>  valueType.setName("WEIGHT");
>>> valueType.setDataType(ValueDataType.DOUBLE);
>>>  value.setValueType(valueType);
>>>  reading.getValues().add(value);
>>> reading.setReadingType(type);
>>>  engine.process(reading);
>>>
>>> } catch (Throwable t) {
>>>  t.printStackTrace();
>>> }
>>>  }
>>>
>>> Shannon Hastings
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
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>>   Edson Tirelli
>>   JBoss Drools Core Development
>>   JBoss by Red Hat @ www.jboss.com
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>> Shannon Hastings
>>
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>> Dublin, OH 43017
>> *Phone*: (614) 389-2795 x101
>> *Fax:* (614) 522-6249
>> *Email:* shannon.hastings at inventrio.com
>> http://www.inventrio.com
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> *Email:* shannon.hastings at inventrio.com
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