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

Mauricio Salatino salaboy at gmail.com
Thu May 26 11:13:03 EDT 2011


Can you share the ksession configuration?


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

> My session is persistent, i can query the sessioninfo in the DB and see the
> data.  My beans are searializable and I can see that the fact has been
> deserialized.
>
>
> On May 26, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Mauricio Salatino wrote:
>
> 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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>>>> *Email:* shannon.hastings at inventrio.com
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>>>
>>>
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>>  Shannon Hastings
>>
>> Inventrio
>> 545 Metro Place South, Suite 475
>> 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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> Shannon Hastings
>
> Inventrio
> 545 Metro Place South, Suite 475
> 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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