[LOG4J2-477] NPE in ClassLoaderContextSelector

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta9
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Remko Popma
• Reporter: Tal Liron
• Created: 22/Dec/13 12:38
• Updated: 08/Jan/20 10:24
• Resolved: 24/Dec/13 10:43

Description

The problem is that some classes don't have class loaders: this can happen when working with dynamic JVM languages (Rhino, Jython, etc.)

Here's the stack trace I got:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.locateContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:182)
	at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.getContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:145)
	at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.getContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:81)
	at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:83)
	at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:34)

Issue Links

• is related to: LOG4J2-2756 ClassLoaderContextSelector: WeakReference and GC