I tried to fix it by adding a check (see code snippet) which resolved the NPE below but caused a new one – I guess it needs more than that …
Code snippet: … if (scalingDependencies != null && !scalingDependencies.isEmpty()) { for (ScalingDependentList scalingDependentList : scalingDependencies) { ScalingEvent highestFactorEvent = null; for (String scalingDependentListComponent : scalingDependentList. … New NPE (with fix from code snippet): TID: [0] [STRATOS] [2014-12-18 21:56:50,452] ERROR {org.apache.stratos.messaging.message.receiver.topology.TopologyEventMessageDelegator} - Failed to retrieve topology event message {org.apache.stratos.messaging.message.receiver.topology.TopologyEventMessageDelegator} java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.pojo.policy.deployment.DeploymentPolicy.getChildPolicy(DeploymentPolicy.java:213) at org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.context.cluster.VMClusterContext.addInstanceContext(VMClusterContext.java:129) at org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.event.receiver.topology.AutoscalerTopologyEventReceiver$14.onEvent(AutoscalerTopologyEventReceiver.java:459) at org.apache.stratos.messaging.listener.EventListener.update(EventListener.java:42) From: Imesh Gunaratne [mailto:im...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:48 AM To: dev Subject: NPE in ParentComponentMonitor Hi Devs, I'm seeing the below NPE in ParentComponentMonitor: [2014-12-19 01:15:25,836] INFO {org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.applications.topic.ApplicationsEventPublisher} - Publishing Application Active event for [application]: single-group-app [instance]:single-group-app-1 [2014-12-19 01:15:25,866] INFO {org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.applications.topic.ApplicationsEventPublisher} - Publishing Group activated event for [application]: single-group-app [group]: single-group-app-group-1 [instance]:single-group-app-1 [2014-12-19 01:16:04,117] ERROR {org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.monitor.component.ApplicationMonitor} - Application monitor failed : org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.monitor.component.ApplicationMonitor@21d2042d<mailto:org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.monitor.component.ApplicationMonitor@21d2042d> java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.monitor.component.ParentComponentMonitor.handleDependentScaling(ParentComponentMonitor.java:573) at org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.monitor.component.ApplicationMonitor$1.run(ApplicationMonitor.java:117) at org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.monitor.component.ApplicationMonitor.monitor(ApplicationMonitor.java:125) at org.apache.stratos.autoscaler.monitor.component.ApplicationMonitor.run(ApplicationMonitor.java:74) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Thanks -- Imesh Gunaratne Technical Lead, WSO2 Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos