Hi Paul Yes, that's a good point. Can you please create a Jira about that, I will "bypass" property with null value.
Thanks, Regards JB On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:47 PM Paul Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Karaf 4.3.6 > Setting a configuration parameter to null throws a NullPointerException. The > specification, > https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.configurator.html, > is silent on the use of null as a property value, but includes the following > "If a requested conversion cannot be performed, then the configuration is not > processed and the Configurator implementation should log an error."; in > addition the configuration parameter are stored in a Dictionary structure > which requires a non-null key and non-null value. > > Although the json format supports 'null' as value and OSGi confutation > appears to required non-null values, should Karaf log something like "Null > value for <Property Name> not supported." instead of throwing a NPE? > > *** > * Thrown exception > *** > > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > at > org.apache.karaf.config.core.impl.JsonConfigInstaller.setConfig(JsonConfigInstaller.java:87) > ~[?:?] > at > org.apache.karaf.config.core.impl.JsonConfigInstaller.update(JsonConfigInstaller.java:66) > ~[?:?] > at > org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.update(DirectoryWatcher.java:1117) > [!/:3.7.4] > at > org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.update(DirectoryWatcher.java:919) > [!/:3.7.4] > at > org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.doProcess(DirectoryWatcher.java:488) > [!/:3.7.4] > at > org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.process(DirectoryWatcher.java:365) > [!/:3.7.4] > at > org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.run(DirectoryWatcher.java:316) > [!/:3.7.4] > > > *** > * etc/foo.json > *** > { > "myNullValue":null > } > > Paul Spencer
