Failure to write to the response having set the Status -> NullPointer

• Key: CACTUS-123
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Vincent Massol
• Reporter: Maxwell Grender-Jones
• Component/s: Framework
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.7

Description

In the example below, a NullPointerException is thrown within Cactus before the endNoContentMethod is reached. However, the 'SomeContent' test passes without incident.

Testcase: testNoContent took 0.301 sec
    [cactus] Caused an ERROR
    [cactus] null
    [cactus] java.lang.NullPointerException
    [cactus] at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.AutoReadHttpURLConnection.copy(AutoReadHttpURLConnection.java:187)

import org.apache.cactus.WebRequest;
import org.apache.cactus.WebResponse;
import org.apache.cactus.ServletTestCase;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import java.io.IOException;


public class CactusTest extends ServletTestCase
{
public void testNoContent()
{
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_NO_CONTENT);
}

public void endNoContent(WebResponse webResponse)
{
assertEquals(webResponse.getStatusCode(), 204);
}

public void testSomeContent() throws IOException
{
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_NO_CONTENT);
response.getWriter().println();
}

public void endSomeContent(WebResponse webResponse)
{
assertEquals(webResponse.getStatusCode(), 204);
}

}