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Andreas Veithen updated WSCOMMONS-111:
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Fix Version/s: Axiom 1.2.8
Assignee: Andreas Veithen
> Careless exception handling needs to be fixed
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> Key: WSCOMMONS-111
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WSCOMMONS-111
> Project: WS-Commons
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: AXIOM
> Reporter: Dennis Sosnoski
> Assignee: Andreas Veithen
> Fix For: Axiom 1.2.8
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> org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next() catches all exceptions
> and rethrows them as OMExceptions (line 199) while other code assumes any
> OMExceptions just mean that the end of the document has been reached (for
> example, org.apache.axiom.om.impl.traverse.next(), line 117, which just sets
> a flag). This means that any coding errors which result in runtime exceptions
> will be masked.
> In the case I've been tracking, an error in
> org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.SOAPBuilderHelper.processAttributes (not
> checking for a null namespace uri) resulted in a NullPointerException, which
> was masked by this code and led to an element being missing from Fault
> details.
> If this code needs to catch particular exceptions these exceptions should be
> individually checked. If this is impractical, at an absolute minimum this
> should check for a RuntimeException subclass and just rethrow it rather than
> masking it as an OMException.
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