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Lukasz Lenart updated WW-5716:
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    Fix Version/s: 7.4.0
                   6.12.0

> Bound the per-locale definition caches in the Tiles plugin
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WW-5716
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-5716
>             Project: Struts 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Lukasz Lenart
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 6.12.0, 7.4.0
>
>
> The Tiles plugin caches parsed definitions per resolved {{Locale}} in two 
> maps that grow without limit and are never reduced during the lifetime of the 
> web application:
> * 
> {{org.apache.tiles.core.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO#locale2definitionMap}}
>  — a {{HashMap}} keyed by {{Locale}}, populated on each cache miss and never 
> evicted. It is only cleared when {{checkRefresh}} is enabled and a refresh is 
> required, and {{checkRefresh}} is {{false}} by default.
> * 
> {{org.apache.tiles.core.definition.pattern.AbstractPatternDefinitionResolver#localePatternPaths}}
>  — populated via {{computeIfAbsent}} per locale customization key and never 
> swept.
> The {{TilesContainer}} that holds the DAO is stored in application scope, so 
> both maps persist for the lifetime of the web application. With the default 
> {{StrutsTilesLocaleResolver}}, the resolved locale comes from the 
> {{ActionContext}} locale, which derives from {{request.getLocale()}}. In that 
> setup the number of distinct cache keys is bounded only by the number of 
> distinct locales encountered, and every new locale adds an entry that is 
> retained indefinitely, so the caches' memory footprint grows over time with 
> no upper bound.
> h3. Proposed change
> Bound both per-locale maps in the plugin's vendored Tiles code — for example 
> a configurable maximum size with eviction — and ensure {{localePatternPaths}} 
> is bounded/cleared alongside {{locale2definitionMap}}. Both maps sit on the 
> same code path, so they must be bounded together; fixing only one leaves the 
> other unbounded.
> h3. Notes
> * Affects every version that ships the Tiles plugin; the vendored caching DAO 
> is unbounded across all of them.
> * Deployments that pin a fixed locale via {{struts.locale}}, or that enable 
> {{struts.locale.validateRequestLocale=true}} (7.3.0+/6.11.0+), already 
> constrain the key set. This change makes the plugin robust by default without 
> requiring that configuration.



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