https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55552
Bug ID: 55552
Summary: Potential NullPointerException in compiled JSPs if
expected result is of primitive type
Product: Tomcat 8
Version: 8.0.0-RC1
Hardware: PC
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Jasper
Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
Reporter: arvids.grabovs...@gmail.com
Created attachment 30821
--> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=30821&action=edit
Web application with required libraries and JSP file to repredouce the NPE
If JSP includes a line "<c:if test="${nonExisting}">Hello,world!</c:if>" where
"nonExisting" is attribute that does not exist, then NullPointerException will
be thrown. The cause is at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspUtil.java at line #421
which generates something like:
((java.lang.Boolean)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate("${nonExisting}",
java.lang.Boolean.class, (javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext)_jspx_page_context,
null, false)).booleanValue()
The result of proprietaryEvaluate() is null (because of EL 3.0 changes
regarding coercing), hence calling booleanValue() will throw NPE. The latest
changes in EL specification does require guarding against such null pointer
access (otherwise it will break lots of existing applications). I really hope
that NPE is not intended behavior.
Steps to reproduce:
* put jstl 1.2+ required jar files in WEB-INF/lib (or tomcat/lib)
* Create a simple JSP file with line above (<c:if
test="${nonExisting}">Hello,world!</c:if>)
* Exception is thrown upon invoking jsp:
java.lang.NullPointerException
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fif_005f0(index_jsp.java:109)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:81)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:403)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:347)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:91)
As far as I understand, this is direct result of incompatibility between EL 3.0
(http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/jcp/el-3_0-fr-eval-spec/index.html) and 2.2
as stated in EL spec this is intended behavior of EL. Here's the citation
(Section A.4):
"The default coercion for nulls to non-primitive types (except String) returns
nulls. For instance, a null coerced to Boolean now returns a null, while a
null coerced to boolean returns false."
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