Hi I upgrade camel-http4 to use 4.2.1 by default in the next 2.11 release of Camel https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-5511
I did not spot any NPE, and thus 4.2.1 seems working fine. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:17 AM, pmcb55 <mcbenne...@dnb.com> wrote: > Hi Claus, > > Ok - I think I've tracked this problem down (after a lot of frustration and > wasted time!). You should be easily able to reproduce the problem with the > code I posted originally if you simply use HttpComponent version 4.2 (i.e. > 'httpclient-4.2.jar' and 'httpcore-4.2.jar'). The latest version is 4.2.1, > and that version works fine for me. > > With the 4.2 versions I traced the NPE down to a call to 'new > StringEntity()' (on line 424 of > org.apache.camel.component.http4.HttpProducer), which seems to be a known > problem: > http://www.mail-archive.com/httpclient-users@hc.apache.org/msg05668.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/httpclient-users@hc.apache.org/msg05668.html . > > Although this post ( http://dvdsdirect.us/notesstringentity.jsp > http://dvdsdirect.us/notesstringentity.jsp ) suggests the problem is also > present in version 4.2.1, my use-case seems to be working fine with that > version. > > As part of my investigations I confirmed that the HttpClient version 3 > libraries (and therefore using the 'camel-http' component (as opposed to > 'camel-http4' component)) worked fine too, but I'm trying to keep my project > on the latest versions of everything, so I think I should be fine with > HttpComponent 4.2.1. > > Thanks for looking into this particular issue - but I should be fine to > continue now. I don't think Camel needs to do anything, except maybe, > somehow, notify people of this potential problem with HttpComponent 4.2. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Http4-component-throws-useless-NPE-if-request-body-is-String-instead-of-InputStream-tp5717268p5717449.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- FuseSource Email: cib...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: davsclaus, fusenews Blog: http://davsclaus.com Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen
