[CONNECTORS-1245] NPE using Confluence authority

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: ManifoldCF 2.2
• Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF 2.3
• Assignee: Antonio David Pérez Morales
• Reporter: Karl Wright
• Created: 05/Oct/15 12:11
• Updated: 06/Oct/15 12:55
• Resolved: 06/Oct/15 11:44

Description

Null pointer exception trying to use Confluence authority, as follows:

Hi,

we're trying index a confluence and are using the confluence authority
connector. It is configured like this:

Protocol : https
Host : ...
Port : 443
Path : /
Username : Admin
Password : ...

In the UI we get the message "Connection working". When searching the
indexed documents we can see that we have only the spacenames as allow
and DEAD_AUTHORITY as the deny tokens.

If we try to use the autority-service like

:4080/mcf-authority-service/UserACLs?username=Foo

then we get always the following response:

UNREACHABLEAUTHORITY:Confluence-Authority
TOKEN:MyGroup:DEAD_AUTHORITY

Everytime we query the authority service the following error is logged:

WARN 2015-10-05 10:57:12,757 (http-bio-8080-exec-8) - Authority
'Confluence-Authority' is unreachable fo r user 'Foo'
WARN 2015-10-05 10:58:05,274 (Auth check thread 2) - Authority
connection error: null java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.manifoldcf.authorities.authorities.confluence.ConfluenceAuthorityConnector.initConfluenceClient
(ConfluenceAuthorityConnector.java:180) at
org.apache.manifoldcf.authorities.authorities.confluence.ConfluenceAuthorityConnector.connect( ConfluenceAuthorityConnector.java:133) at
org.apache.manifoldcf.core.connectorpool.ConnectorPool$Pool.getConnector(ConnectorPool.java:479)
        at org.apache.manifoldcf.core.connectorpool.ConnectorPool.grab
(ConnectorPool.java:255) at
org.apache.manifoldcf.authorities.authorityconnectorpool.AuthorityConnectorPool.grab
(Authority ConnectorPool.java:86) at
org.apache.manifoldcf.authorities.system.AuthCheckThread.run
(AuthCheckThread.java:84)