Also, is there any way to have UEL complain more? In this case what does it do when it sees the reference to "orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.GZ"? Does it create a List object and add it to the Map, or seeing it is part of an arithmetic expression does it create it as some sort of numeric object? In the old stuff it would know from context what type of object to create, and if that is still around and it knows it should be a List then with trying to do an arithmetic operation on a list it would be nice if it complained.

Is there any place where errors or warnings are being suppressed instead of being thrown as exceptions... or at least logged?

-David


On Dec 15, 2008, at 2:14 PM, David E Jones wrote:


But in this case it's not missing... there is actually a Map member (that is a List object) with the key "GZ-2644" and the simple-method code is try to access it, so we can't just treat it as missing when it comes back as the wrong type...

In this case, and in many cases where the FlexibleStringExpander and FlexibleMapAccessor are used we are just trying to get the name of a "variable" (a Map member really), and we really don't need (or want... I don't think...) arithmetic operations. Is there any way to turn those off?

-David


On Dec 15, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:

The code already expects the possibility that the object doesn't exist and creates a new one if it's missing. The try-catch block just treats an invalid object type as a missing object and then everything runs the same as always.

-Adrian

David E Jones wrote:
How exactly would that fix the problem? Wouldn't it just make the code fail, but fail with less noise... and possibly fail without any notice at all, leading to incorrect results that the system treats as correct. In this case, we need the "GZ-2644" interpreted as a map key rather than as a minus operator in the middle of an expression... and unless there's something amazing going on here that I'm totally missing (which I acknowledge is possible), I don't think ignoring the type cast exception would help...
-David
On Dec 15, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David,

Thank you for the detailed description of the problem - that made it much easier to track down.

Yes it is UEL related, and also related to weak Java code in mini- language.

The mini-lang code causing the exception is:

<field-to-list field-name="orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation" list-name="oiirailByProdMap.$ {orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId}"/>

The ${orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId} expression is evaluated and returns a String - "GZ-2644". The String is appended to orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation and the result is

"orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.GZ-2644"

That String is handed off to the JUEL library for evaluation. I haven't looked into the JUEL code to be sure, but I can assume JUEL thinks that expression means "Take the orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.GZ variable and subtract 2644 from it." So, JUEL returns -2644.

The exception is thrown in FieldToList.java:

List<Object> toList = listAcsr.get(methodContext);
if (toList == null) {
if (Debug.verboseOn()) Debug.logVerbose("List not found with name " + listAcsr + ", creating new list", module);
 toList = FastList.newInstance();
 listAcsr.put(methodContext, toList);
}

Changing that to:


List<Object> toList = null;
try {
 toList = listAcsr.get(methodContext);
} catch (Exception e) {}
if (toList == null) {
if (Debug.verboseOn()) Debug.logVerbose("List not found with name " + listAcsr + ", creating new list", module);
 toList = FastList.newInstance();
 listAcsr.put(methodContext, toList);
}

fixes the problem. It also makes more sense - because you can't assume the object returned will always be a List (even without UEL).

Looking through the mini-language Java code, I see that assumption is made a lot. I'm not sure where to go from here. Surrounding all of the type casts with try-catch blocks would be a worthwhile endeavor, but it is also a lot of work.

Anyways, I've made the change to most of the classes and can commit them, but there are chances this exception might pop up elsewhere.

What do you think?

-Adrian

David E Jones wrote:
To reproduce, from latest OFBiz revision and fresh database with it: 1. in ecommerce (or Order Manager) place a sales order for 10 (anything more than 5) of product "GZ-2644"; this will cause an inventory reservation against a bulk facility location, therefore needing a stock move before picking the order 2. place another order for "GZ-2644" so that there are at least 2 reservations against the bulk location 3. go to the Facility -> Stock Moves tab for the facility WebStoreWarehouse (https://localhost:8443/facility/control/PickMoveStock?facilityId=WebStoreWarehouse ) When the page renders you'll get an error, the main exception is (just first couple of lines): 2008-12-15 02:12:58,331 (http-0.0.0.0-8443-1) [ SimpleMethod.java:926:ERROR] ---- runtime exception report -------------------------------------------------- Error in simple-method operation [<field-to-list list- name="oiirailByProdMap.$ {orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId}" field- name="orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation" map-name=""/>]: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Long
Exception: java.lang.ClassCastException
Message: java.lang.Long
---- stack trace ---------------------------------------------------------------
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Long
org .ofbiz.minilang.method.envops.FieldToList.exec(FieldToList.java: 79)
org.ofbiz.minilang.SimpleMethod.runSubOps(SimpleMethod.java:921)
This is happening in the StockMoveServices.xml file on line 65.
Somehow the expression "${oiirailByProdMap.$ {orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId}" is evaluation to "-2,644" as evidenced by adding this log statement just before line the line 65 mentioned above: <log level="info" message="orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId=$ {orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId} oiirailByProdMap value=${oiirailByProdMap.$ {orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId}"/> The log shows: 2008-12-15 02:18:46,896 (http-0.0.0.0-8443-1) [ Log.java:110:INFO ] [StockMoveServices.xml#findStockMovesNeeded] orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId=GZ-2644 oiirailByProdMap value= 2008-12-15 02:18:46,897 (http-0.0.0.0-8443-1) [ Log.java:110:INFO ] [StockMoveServices.xml#findStockMovesNeeded] orderItemShipGrpInvResAndItemLocation.productId=GZ-2644 oiirailByProdMap value=-2,644 In other words, on the second line you can see where the expression that should return a List object instead returns a Long object with the value of "-2,644" which appears to be the productId GZ-2644 parsed as an integer... Any ideas as to how this might be happening? I suspect it is an issue with the UEL stuff Adrian recently added, since this was working just a few days ago.
I'm guessing this is happening in other places too...
-David


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