[STR-145] unintuitive NullPointerException for wrong configuration entry

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0 Beta 1
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Core
• Environment: Operating System: Linux; Platform: All
• Bugzilla Id: 1435
• Assignee: Craig R. McClanahan
• Reporter: richard.kail
• Created: 20/Apr/01 17:05
• Updated: 04/Jul/07 03:42
• Resolved: 04/Jul/07 03:42

Description

Action entry:

<action path="/froboz" type="foo" name="bar" scope="session"
validate="true"
input="myform.jsp"
>
<forward name="success" path="/baz.jsp"/>
</action>

The problem with this is, that input="myform.jsp" is wrong, it misses the
leading / (e.g. absolute path stuff...)

In ActionServlet.java Line 1987ff:

RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(uri);
rd.forward(request, response);

rd will be null, so the next line makes a NullPointerException.

It would be nice to get a log entry and some form of controlled error (e.g. a
send error thing or a struts generated exception)