Thanks Andreas,

That’s an interesting idea. 

So are you suggesting that if, say, two parallel/concurrent threads are 
attempting to load the same document (or same effective document—as we’re 
passing a byte array into PDDocument.load()) that this could be the cause?

i.e., is PDDocument.load not thread-safe?

Cheers,
Lachlan

> On 8 Apr 2021, at 4:18 pm, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> could be an issue with the static initialization of PDDocument due to the 
> java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException but this is just a wild guess.
> 
> We need a test case to reproduce this but I'm afraid that isn't that easy as 
> concurrency issues are likely not deterministic. But maybe someone comes up 
> with an idea or better a test case.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Am 07.04.21 um 12:43 schrieb Lachlan Deck:
>> Hi all,
>> We’re periodically seeing the above exception in a spring-boot api using 
>> PDFBox 2.0.21.
>> When that occurs the only remedy appears to be restarting the api, after 
>> which it hums along fine for a day and then hits this error again.
>> We’re producing pdfs with jasper (plus taking some optional custom pdfs), 
>> then using PDFBox to overlay or stitch things together into a final pdf.
>> Does anyone know what might cause this to happen, and if it’s potentially 
>> fixed by the recent 2.0.23 release?
>> our.springboot.api.exception.RenderException: failed to render a template
>>      at our.springboot.api.Rendering...
>>      at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at 
>> java.base/java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(Unknown Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at 
>> java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(Unknown Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect(Unknown Source)
>>      ...
>>      at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor193.invoke(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at 
>> java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:190)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:138)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:105)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:878)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:792)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:87)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:1040)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:943)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1006)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:909)
>>      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:652)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:883)
>>      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:733)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at brave.servlet.TracingFilter.doFilter(TracingFilter.java:68)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.filter.RequestContextFilter.doFilterInternal(RequestContextFilter.java:100)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:119)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.filter.FormContentFilter.doFilterInternal(FormContentFilter.java:93)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:119)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at brave.servlet.TracingFilter.doFilter(TracingFilter.java:87)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.web.LazyTracingFilter.doFilter(TraceWebServletAutoConfiguration.java:139)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.web.servlet.WebMvcMetricsFilter.doFilterInternal(WebMvcMetricsFilter.java:93)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:119)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:201)
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:119)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at 
>> org.cloudfoundry.router.ClientCertificateMapper.doFilter(ClientCertificateMapper.java:79)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:202)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:541)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:747)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:373)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:868)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1589)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
>>      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
>>      at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>> Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class 
>> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument
>>      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(Unknown Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source)
>>      at our.springboot.api.v3.service.FooBar
>>      ... 76 common frames omitted
>> Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class 
>> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument
>>      at 
>> our.springboot.api.domain.PDDocumentLoader.load(PDDocumentLoader.java:14)
>>         …
>>      at 
>> org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.async.TraceCallable.call(TraceCallable.java:71)
>>      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>      ... 1 common frames omitted
>> Kind regards,
>> Lachlan Deck
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