No, not yet! :-(

Anyone else have any idea?

In short: my Page objects occasionally get the wrong application state object injected by Tapestry 4.1!

I've been looking into it, but it's very hard to see what's going on with all the synthetic classes created by Hivemind. But one clue I got by making a heap dump and analysing it: all application state objects (of closed sessions) were still in memory, with references from Page classes in a TapestryKeyedObjectPool!

I'm pretty sure the Page properties are supposed to be cleaned out at the end of a request cycle, when the page is returned to the pool, but apparently for some reason that is not happening! Is this a familiar problem to anyone?

Kind regards,
Pepijn Schmitz

On 25-01-11 11:59, Koka Kiknadze wrote:
Did you find root of the problem? Just curious :)

Good luck


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Pepijn Schmitz<capt...@chaos.demon.nl>wrote:

Hi,

Thanks! But I don't think that's it. We're already using HTTPS, but also
that would not explain how the correct application state object can be on
the HttpSession, even though Tapestry injected the wrong one...

We are using Apache 2 using mod_proxy as a front-end though. Apache takes
care of the SSL and forwards the requests to Glassfish over HTTP. I'll look
into the possibility that something is going wrong there, although it seems
unlikely due to the above reason...

Cheers,
Pepijn


On 11-01-11 19:04, Koka Kiknadze wrote:

I did have exactly similar problem couple of years ago - JSF app worked
fine
from intranet, but messed up user sessions when accessed from WAN side.

So initial suspect was the squid proxy configuration of our ISP. The
problem
disappeared as soon as we turned encryption on for the whole site (so that
proxy could not mess things up). Well, as the performance was acceptable
even with HTTPS we just left everything as is.

Hence I'd suggest temporarily requiring HTTPS for the whole site and if
the
problem disappears, you'll know for sure it's not your application or
tapestry to be blamed.

Good luck.




On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Pepijn Schmitz<tapes...@chaos.demon.nl
wrote:
  Hi everyone,
I'm having a bizarre problem with Tapestry, and I'm hoping someone here
might be able to point me to a solution. Before I go into detail I'd like
to
describe the problem generally, in the hopes that it might be a known
problem or someone may have encountered something similar.

The problem is that Tapestry 4.1.6 sometimes injects the wrong
application
state object on my pages! As you can imagine, this plays havoc with my
application, with users seeing other users' details, or even worse,
changing
other users' information! It's a support and security nightmare.

I'm using Tapestry 4.1.6, and I'm using annotations instead of XML files.
My pages all descend from a base class:

public abstract SupplierDNAPage extends BasePage {
    @InjectState
    public abstract SupplierDnaSession getSupplierDnaSession();

    @InjectStateFlag
    public abstract boolean getSupplierDnaSessionExists();

    ...
}

hivemodule.xml contains the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module id="com.supplierdna" version="0.0.0">
<contribution configuration-id="tapestry.state.ApplicationObjects">
<state-object name="supplier-dna-session" scope="session">
<create-instance class="com.supplierdna.logic.SupplierDnaSession"/>
</state-object>
</contribution>
  ...
</module>

SupplierDNA is the name of the company I'm writing this for. As I
understand it, this is the correct way of using application state
objects.
And most of the time, it works perfectly. When testing locally I have no
problems with wrong application state being injected, and our demo system
also doesn't have the problem.

The problems seem to start when the server is heavily loaded. Then,
sometimes, getSupplierDnaSession() will return an application state
object
from a different session!!!

I have verified this by adding a pageBeginRender() listener method to the
base class, and a client address property to the session. The listener
method checks whether the client address stored on the session it gets
from
Tapestry is the same as the client address from the current request, and
throws an exception if this is not the case. On our production server,
this
happens dozens of times a day!

The method also directly retrieves the application state object from the
HttpSession and compares it to the one it got from Tapestry, and it turns
out that the application state object on the HttpSession is the correct
one,
but somehow Tapestry is injecting a different one! This seems to rule out
the web container as being the culprit (which is Glassfish 2 update 2, in
this case).

Obviously this is a complex problem with a potentially huge number of
contributing factors, but first I'd just like to know whether this sounds
familiar to anyone? Is there a known problem with Tapestry which could
cause
this? Has anyone ever experienced something similar? Many thanks in
advance
for any help you can give me!

Kind regards,
Pepijn Schmitz

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