I found the proximate cause: Not having UPDINDEX set to true() on the failing server.
When I set UPDINDEX to true on the target database, then the load succeeded. Tracking through the Java code it looks like a failure to initialize the idmap member of the DiskData object. This code looks like it could be the issue: // open data and indexes init(); if(meta.updindex) { idmap = new IdPreMap(meta.dbFile(DATAIDP)); if(meta.textindex) textIndex = new UpdatableDiskValues(this, IndexType.TEXT); if(meta.attrindex) attrIndex = new UpdatableDiskValues(this, IndexType.ATTRIBUTE); if(meta.tokenindex) tokenIndex = new UpdatableDiskValues(this, IndexType.TOKEN); } else { if(meta.textindex) textIndex = new DiskValues(this, IndexType.TEXT); if(meta.attrindex) attrIndex = new DiskValues(this, IndexType.ATTRIBUTE); if(meta.tokenindex) tokenIndex = new DiskValues(this, IndexType.TOKEN); } if(meta.ftindex) ftIndex = new FTIndex(this); The idmap is only set of meta.updIndex is true. Cheers, E. _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow> From: Eliot Kimber <eliot.kim...@servicenow.com> Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 11:51 AM To: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Consistent NPE loading content on one server, other server works I have two servers running the same code, both on 10.7. I have a REST API handler that takes data as input and stores it in a database, applying some preprocessing to the data first. The data successfully loads on my dev server and consistently fails on the production server, with this Java failure: [INFO] Posting "/Users/eliot.kimber/git-basex/product-content-analytics/analytics/adobe/adobe-analytics-Utah_Pages_Viewed_Aug2023-clean.csv" [INFO] as filename "adobe-analytics-Utah_Pages_Viewed_Aug2023-clean.csv" [INFO] to Mirabel server "http://mirabel.corp.service-now.com:9984"... Unexpected error: Improper use? Potential bug? Your feedback is welcome: Contact: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Version: BaseX 10.7 Java: Oracle Corporation, 17.0.8 OS: Linux, amd64 Stack Trace: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.basex.index.IdPreMap.write(org.basex.io.IOFile)" because "this.idmap" is null at org.basex.data.DiskData.write(DiskData.java:151) at org.basex.data.DiskData.close(DiskData.java:160) at org.basex.core.Datas.unpin(Datas.java:52) at org.basex.core.cmd.Close.close(Close.java:45) at org.basex.core.cmd.OptimizeAll.optimizeAll(OptimizeAll.java:124) at org.basex.query.up.primitives.db.DBOptimize.apply(DBOptimize.java:119) at org.basex.query.up.DataUpdates.applyDbUpdates(DataUpdates.java:213) at org.basex.query.up.DataUpdates.apply(DataUpdates.java:172) at org.basex.query.up.ContextModifier.apply(ContextModifier.java:120) at org.basex.query.up.Updates.apply(Updates.java:179) at org.basex.query.QueryContext.update(QueryContext.java:663) at org.basex.query.QueryContext.lambda$iter$4(QueryContext.java:357) at org.basex.query.QueryContext.run(QueryContext.java:766) at org.basex.query.QueryContext.iter(QueryContext.java:357) at org.basex.http.restxq.RestXqResponse.serialize(RestXqResponse.java:78) at org.basex.http.web.WebResponse.create(WebResponse.java:58) at org.basex.http.restxq.RestXqServlet.run(RestXqServlet.java:72) at org.basex.http.BaseXServlet.service(BaseXServlet.java:69) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder$NotAsync.service(ServletHolder.java:1459) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:799) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$ChainEnd.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1656) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CrossOriginFilter.handle(CrossOriginFilter.java:319) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CrossOriginFilter.doFilter(CrossOriginFilter.java:273) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:201) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1626) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:552) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:600) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:235) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1624) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:233) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1440) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:188) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:505) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1594) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:186) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1355) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:516) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.lambda$handle$1(HttpChannel.java:487) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:732) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:479) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:277) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:105) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$1.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:104) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:883) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:1034) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)[INFO] Data loaded. The two servers are essentially identical Linux servers, although the production server has more resources. Any idea what might cause this failure or what I can do to diagnose it? There must be some non-obvious difference in these two servers but I don’t know what to look for. The code doing the load to a database is: let $reportPath as xs:string := ``[/`{$analyticsmgmt:csvPathRoot}`/`{$source}`/`{$reportType}`/`{$reportName}`.xml]`` let $msg := prof:dump(``[[INFO] Storing analytics report "`{$reportPath}`"]``) let $csv := $csv transform with { insert node attribute {'timestamp'} {$timeStampStr} into ./* } let $csv := $csv transform with { analyticsmgmt:dispatchAnalysticsStorePreProcessing($reportName, ., $debug) } return try { (db:put($analyticsDb, $csv, $reportPath), db:optimize($analyticsDb, true(), map{ 'attrindex' : true(), 'tokenindex' : true(), 'updindex' : true() }) ) } catch * { util:logToConsole( 'analyticsmgmt:storeAnalyticsCsvReport', ``[`{$err:code}`: `{$err:description}`]``, 'error' ) } Thanks, Eliot _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow>