I have a web application which is failing in RestEasy initialization with an
NPE. It worked for many years until I added a large number of jar dependencies
because of a new development effort. I've debugged the code by stepping through
the Tomcat source to the point I've found where it is failing. It seems to be a
Tomcat bug but of course I'm not convinced since it is highly more likely it is
my problem.
Tomcat version is 9.0.36, though the failure happens in the Tomcat 8 versions
I've tried as well.
The NPE is triggered by a single "return null" statement in
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext line 933. Below is a code snippet
of where the return statement is. In my failing scenario the wrapper is NOT
null and isOverridable is already returning false. So it falls through to
return null.
So here is my question: Why in the world in the code below does the return null
statement even exist? It seems like the return null at line 933 is the
precondition the code is trying to establish.
//code from 'org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext'
Wrapper wrapper = (Wrapper) context.findChild(servletName);
// Assume a 'complete' ServletRegistration is one that has a class and
// a name
if (wrapper == null) {
wrapper = context.createWrapper();
wrapper.setName(servletName);
context.addChild(wrapper);
} else {
if (wrapper.getName() != null &&
wrapper.getServletClass() != null) {
if (wrapper.isOverridable()) {
wrapper.setOverridable(false);
} else {
return null; // Line 933
}
}
}
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