[WSS-653] Better diagnostics for null password

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.5
• Component/s: WSS4J Handlers
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Colm O hEigeartaigh
• Reporter: Fr Jeremy Krieg
• Created: 19/Aug/19 03:19
• Updated: 18/Mar/20 07:17
• Resolved: 19/Aug/19 15:41

Description

I wasted quite a bit of time over the last day or so debugging what turned out to be a trivial error.

A bug in my code meant that my password callback handler was not actually setting the password. ws-security-stax reported this fact to me with the error message "General security error", which wasn't particularly helpful. A little bit of extra information in this error message would have saved me an hour or so chasing red herrings - eg "no password provided"