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Freeman Fang reassigned CXF-8041:
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Assignee: Freeman Fang
> Error resolving relative XSD Schema on Tomcat
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> Key: CXF-8041
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-8041
> Project: CXF
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core, Transports
> Affects Versions: 3.3.1
> Reporter: Mike M.
> Assignee: Freeman Fang
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: cxf-tomcat-resource-resolver.zip
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> We found an issue in a CXF JAX-WS project when running in WSDL-first mode
> with schema-validation enabled on Tomcat. The WSDL references an external XSD
> schema using a relative path. The WSDL and XSD are bundled with the
> application and are present on the classpath.
> *Expectation:*
> The XSD should be resolved successfully and schema validation should work.
> *Actual behavior:*
> * The resource lookup runs through CXF {{EndpointReferenceUtils}}'
> {{SchemaLSResourceResolver}}. This one runs through multiple strategies for
> resolving the imported XSD URL to a resource. One of them (currently around
> line 150) is an attempt to ask a {{ResourceManager}} for the URL.
> * In a Servlet context, this will be handled by CXF's
> {{ServletContextResourceResolver}}. This one (currently starting around line
> 82) will ask the actual {{ServletContext}} for the URL. While doing so, it
> will catch and ignore {{MalformedURLException}} s as documented in the
> {{ServletContext}} interface as well as {{URISyntaxException}} s (probably
> precautionary).
> * Entering Tomcat's implementation: the call will go through Tomcat's
> {{ApplicationContext}} and end up in the {{StandardRoot}}'s
> {{#validate(String)}} method. Unfortunately, while validating the provided
> URL, this one throws {{IllegalArgumentException}} s instead of just returning
> {{null}}. In our case, since we resolve the XSD schema relative to the WSDL
> and need to go up some levels (../../) from it, Tomcat thinks we're trying to
> escape the application context and will trigger the
> {{IllegalArgumentException}}.
> * Unfortunately though, this exception never gets caught and propagates up
> the stack back to CXF's {{SchemaLSResourceResolver#resolveResource}}. This
> method had several strategies for resolving resources, remember? The annoying
> part is: we didn't even need that particular ServletContext strategy for our
> XSD, and one of the other methods (classpath lookup) would have resolved the
> XSD just fine, *had the ServletContext lookup not thrown the
> {{IllegalArgumentException}}*. That uncaught exception however, breaks the
> lookup entirely.
> *Solution proposal:*
> I think the least invasive solution would be for
> {{ServletContextResourceResolver}} to additionally catch
> {{IllegalArgumentException}} when calling {{ServletContext#getResource}}. It
> already catches {{URISyntaxException}} even though that one isn't documented
> by the {{ServletContext}} API. Catching an exception that basically says
> "Hey, this argument isn't valid" would be semantically similar imho.
> A more drastic approach would be catching all {{RuntimeException}} s from the
> Servlet Container in order to fulfill {{ResourceResolver#resolve}}'s
> contract, namely: "@return an instance of the resource or null if the
> resource cannot be resolved".
> *Reproducing the error:*
> I attached a sample project to this ticket that reproduces the issue. Make
> sure to follow the instructions in its README.md.
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