Balu Vellanki created FALCON-2107: ------------------------------------- Summary: NPE in FalconWorkflowEngine::isActive() method when FalconJPAService is not used Key: FALCON-2107 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FALCON-2107 Project: Falcon Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.10 Reporter: Balu Vellanki Assignee: Balu Vellanki Priority: Blocker Fix For: 0.10
When attempting any schedulable entity actions, Falcon is attempting to do getNativeWorkflowEngine().isActive(entity) -- which throws an NPE when FalconJPAService is not enabled in startup.properties. {code} falcon:DELETE//entities/delete/process/rawEmailIngestProcess] ~ Unable to reach workflow engine for deletion or deletion failed (AbstractEntityManager:287) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.falcon.service.FalconJPAService.getEntityManager(FalconJPAService.java:168) at org.apache.falcon.state.store.jdbc.JDBCStateStore.getEntityManager(JDBCStateStore.java:495) at org.apache.falcon.state.store.jdbc.JDBCStateStore.getEntityBean(JDBCStateStore.java:113) at org.apache.falcon.state.store.jdbc.JDBCStateStore.getEntityByKey(JDBCStateStore.java:101) at org.apache.falcon.state.store.jdbc.JDBCStateStore.entityExists(JDBCStateStore.java:126) at org.apache.falcon.workflow.engine.FalconWorkflowEngine.isActive(FalconWorkflowEngine.java:113) at org.apache.falcon.workflow.WorkflowEngineFactory.getWorkflowEngine(WorkflowEngineFactory.java:54) at org.apache.falcon.resource.AbstractEntityManager.getWorkflowEngine(AbstractEntityManager.java:1325) at org.apache.falcon.resource.AbstractEntityManager.delete(AbstractEntityManager.java:274) at org.apache.falcon.resource.AbstractEntityManager.delete(AbstractEntityManager.java:257) {code} Confirmed with [~pallavi.rao] that the optimal solution is to catch NPE and return false in the isActive(...) method. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)