Details
Major Description
The following exception can occur after an application restart:
javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.storage.DefaultRendererInterceptorPropertyStorage incompatible with org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.storage.RendererInterceptorPropertyStorage
at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.context.ExceptionHandlerImpl.wrap(ExceptionHandlerImpl.java:241)
at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.context.ExceptionHandlerImpl.handle(ExceptionHandlerImpl.java:156)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:191)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)
at org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.startup.ExtValLifecycleWrapper.execute(ExtValLifecycleWrapper.java:61)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:189)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1224)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:774)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:456)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:178)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.invokeFilters(WebAppFilterManager.java:1032)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.handleRequest(WebApp.java:3704)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.handleRequest(WebGroup.java:304)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:962)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest(WSWebContainer.java:1662)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:195)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:452)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:511)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.processRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:305)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpICLReadCallback.complete(HttpICLReadCallback.java:83)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1659)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.storage.DefaultRendererInterceptorPropertyStorage incompatible with org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.storage.RendererInterceptorPropertyStorage
at org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.interceptor.AbstractValidationInterceptor.getRendererInterceptorPropertyStorage(AbstractValidationInterceptor.java:477)
at org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.interceptor.AbstractValidationInterceptor.setRendererInterceptorProperties(AbstractValidationInterceptor.java:456)
at org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.interceptor.AbstractValidationInterceptor.beforeGetConvertedValue(AbstractValidationInterceptor.java:166)
at org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.renderkit.ExtValRendererWrapper.getConvertedValue(ExtValRendererWrapper.java:361)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewParameter.getConvertedValue(UIViewParameter.java:248)
at javax.faces.component.UIInput.validate(UIInput.java:556)
at javax.faces.component.UIInput.processValidators(UIInput.java:247)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewParameter.processValidators(UIViewParameter.java:218)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processValidators(UIComponentBase.java:1234)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processValidators(UIComponentBase.java:1234)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._processValidatorsDefault(UIViewRoot.java:1326)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.access$500(UIViewRoot.java:75)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot$ProcessValidatorPhaseProcessor.process(UIViewRoot.java:1401)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._process(UIViewRoot.java:1282)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processValidators(UIViewRoot.java:758)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.ProcessValidationsExecutor.execute(ProcessValidationsExecutor.java:34)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:171)
... 25 more
The exception occurred because the UIViewParameter.java was holding on to it's renderer because it's a static variable. This cause a few problems:
1) Since WebSphere ships MyFaces in the runtime more than one application is using this Static variable ( unlike when JSF is bundled within the application ), so each application is using the same renderer.
2) The renderer was not being released during a restart of the application so one from a different classloader was being used causing the ClassCastException
3) Since UIViewParameter is within the API we could not just add a method to clean up the render, so I had to use the reflection API to make the call into a private static method.
I've attached a patch for this issue. Please review and let me know your thoughts. I've tested this and have had a customer also verify that it solves the issue they were seeing.
