Bug 53800

Summary: Infinte loop cause by FileDirContext in a CDI/Weld project when using Eclipse's "Server modules without publishing"
Product: Tomcat 7 Reporter: Kevin Wooten <kdubb>
Component: CatalinaAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: trunk   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Attachments: Patch for FileDirContext.java

Description Kevin Wooten 2012-08-30 06:19:19 UTC
Created attachment 29302 [details]
Patch for FileDirContext.java

Weld's TomcatListener is using the recurse method recited below. In the case I am encountering the DirContext that Tomcat provides is a FileDirContext.

The discovery code used by Weld encounters what appears to be a bug in FileDirContext where FileDirContexts for child directories are created with the current FileDirContext's path. This causes an infinite loop while it searches the root directory over and over.

Assuming the class discovery code Weld is using is correct, I tracked down the problem to a specific line in FileDirContext.java.  Fixing this line to set the path of the new child FileDirContext to the matching child directory fixes the issue I am encountering. With this change the project appears to still pass all the unit tests ran with "ant test". I have attached the patch to this issue.


Here is Weld's recurse function which I am assuming is correct...

protected static void recurse(DirContext context, Set<String> classes, Set<URL> urls, String prefix) throws Exception {
    if (prefix.length() > 0)
        prefix += ".";

    NamingEnumeration ne = context.listBindings("");
    while (ne.hasMoreElements()) {
        Binding next = (Binding) ne.nextElement();
        String name = prefix + next.getName();
        if (name.endsWith(".class")) {
            classes.add(name.substring(0, name.length() - 6));
            continue;
        }

        Object nextObject = next.getObject();
        if (nextObject instanceof DirContext) {
            recurse((DirContext) nextObject, classes, urls, name);
        }
    }
}
Comment 1 Konstantin Kolinko 2012-08-30 06:57:32 UTC
Fixed in 7.0 with r1378819 and will be in 7.0.30.
Proposed for 6.0.


> Here is Weld's recurse function which I am assuming is correct...

It would be a lot better if they used Servlet API (ServletContext.getResourcePaths(..)) for their task.
Well, I do not know all circumstances.
Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2012-10-04 16:36:33 UTC
Fixed in 6.0.x and will be included in 6.0.36