https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53285
Priority: P2 Bug ID: 53285 Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org Summary: Web app configuration fails when security-role-ref does not contain role-link Severity: normal Classification: Unclassified OS: Windows XP Reporter: sjdav...@acm.org Hardware: PC Status: NEW Version: 7.0.27 Component: Catalina Product: Tomcat 7 Created attachment 28829 --> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=28829&action=edit Sample WAR The <role-link> element is optional content within <security-role-ref>. However, an application will fail to deploy if the optional element is missing. I've attached a sample WAR that highlights the problem. Note, the attached WAR will deploy ok in 6.0.35. Console output from running 7.0.27 embedded in Eclipse: INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.27 24/05/2012 2:32:34 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement SEVERE: End event threw exception Throwable occurred: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't convert argument: null at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.convert(IntrospectionUtils.java:966) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.CallMethodRule.end(CallMethodRule.java:476) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1051) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1537) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.parseWebXml(ContextConfig.java:1825) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1201) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:855) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:345) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5161) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1566) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1556) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:314) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:897) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:919) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:736) 24/05/2012 2:32:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig parseWebXml SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml file at jndi:/localhost/testApp/WEB-INF/web.xml Throwable occurred: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't convert argument: null at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2687) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2719) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1054) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1537) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.parseWebXml(ContextConfig.java:1825) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1201) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:855) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:345) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5161) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1566) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1556) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:314) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:897) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:919) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:736) 24/05/2012 2:32:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig parseWebXml SEVERE: Occurred at line 18 column 23 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org