I am having issues with serializing objects to JSON, and being new to WCF, I am having issues on where to start in terms of debugging. All I get if I hit the service by typing the url in the browser is page not available.
The scenario: I have class A which inherits a List of class B. If I comment out in Class A where it adds to it's collection, I can at least hit the service (just obviously no data will be present), but if it adds to its collection, I can no longer hit the service.
Interface:
<OperationContract()> _
<WebGet(UriTemplate:="getAdverseReactions", responseFormat:=WebMessageFormat.Json)> _
<ServiceKnownType(GetType(AdverseReactions))> _
<ServiceKnownType(GetType(AdverseReaction))> _
Function GetAdverseReactions() As AdverseReactions
Implementing interface:
Public Function GetAdverseReactions() As AdverseReactions Implements IPortalCoreService.GetAdverseReactions
Return CoreServiceController.GetAdverseReactions()//which returns class A
End Function
Class A:
<CollectionDataContract(Name:="AdverseReactionsCollection", ItemName:="AdverseReaction")> _
Public Class AdverseReactions
Inherits List(Of AdverseReaction)
Class B:
<DataContract(IsReference:=True)> _
Public Class AdverseReaction
I stepped through the code via attaching a process, and no exceptions are thrown and I can confirm that the objects are returned as they should be, I just obviously cannot serialize it. I have read about circular references, and a friend of mine suggested that these two classes might be serializing each other in an infinite manner.
My main question: Is there a place I can look to see why this is occurring, or at least some more information about it? This issue has been handling me, all I want is to serialize this and when I do I think I will take a weeks vacation :).
Add the following block to your web.config <configuration> block
<system.diagnostics>
<sources>
<source name="System.ServiceModel"
switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing"
propagateActivity="true">
<listeners>
<add name="traceListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="c:\log\WebTrace.svclog" />
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
</system.diagnostics>
and ensure the directory specified (c:\log) exists and is writable by the IIS service.
Once this is done, perform the action that causes the serialization issue then navigate to the directory and double-click the generated svclog file.
This will open the file in the Microsoft Service Trace Viewer. Once this is opened, you will see errors displayed in red down the left-hand side.
Clicking on one of these will show the details in the top right pane and you can click on each of the actions to determine what WCF is complaining about.
While this is slightly dated (2010), I think it will give you some ideas of paths to try.
Quickly finding WCF Serialization/Deserialization Issues
This previous StackOverflow question might help to:
How to trace WCF serialization issues / exceptions
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I am using Grails 2.2.4 and have a controller endpoint which converts a domain object list to JSON. Under load (as little as 5 concurrent requests) the marshaling performance is very poor. Taking thread dumps the threads are blocked on:
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:291)
There is a single marhsaler registered to marshal all domain objects using reflection and introspection. Realizing that reflection and introspection is slower than direct method calls, I am still seeing unexpected behavior in that the class loader is caller every time and in turn blocking occurs. An example stacktrace is as follows:
java.lang.Thread.State: BLOCKED (on object monitor)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:291)
- waiting to lock <785e31830> (a org.grails.plugins.tomcat.ParentDelegatingClassLoader)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at java.beans.Introspector.instantiate(Introspector.java:1470)
at java.beans.Introspector.findExplicitBeanInfo(Introspector.java:431)
at java.beans.Introspector.<init>(Introspector.java:380)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:167)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:230)
at java.beans.Introspector.<init>(Introspector.java:389)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:167)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:230)
at java.beans.Introspector.<init>(Introspector.java:389)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:167)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:230)
at java.beans.Introspector.<init>(Introspector.java:389)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:167)
at org.springframework.beans.CachedIntrospectionResults.<init>(CachedIntrospectionResults.java:217)
at org.springframework.beans.CachedIntrospectionResults.forClass(CachedIntrospectionResults.java:149)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.getCachedIntrospectionResults(BeanWrapperImpl.java:324)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.getPropertyValue(BeanWrapperImpl.java:727)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.getPropertyValue(BeanWrapperImpl.java:721)
at org.springframework.beans.PropertyAccessor$getPropertyValue.call(Unknown Source)
at com.ngs.id.RestDomainClassMarshaller.extractValue(RestDomainClassMarshaller.groovy:203)
...
...
A simple benchmark loading the same endpoint with the same parameters results in the loadClass call.
I was under the impression the classes would be at least cached by the class loader and not loaded on every method call to get the property to be marshaled.
The code to retrieve the property value is as follows:
BeanWrapper beanWrapper = PropertyAccessorFactory.forBeanPropertyAccess(domainObject);
return beanWrapper.getPropertyValue(property.getName());
Is there a configuration setting that is needed to ensure the classes are only loaded once? or perhaps a different way to get the property that doesn't result in class loading every time? Or perhaps a more performant way to achieve this?
Writing a custom marshaler per domain class would avoid the reflection and introspection but is going to be a lot of repeat code.
Appreciate any input.
So after much digging this is what I found out.
Using the BeanUtils.getPropertyDescriptors and getValue will always try and find a BeanInfo class describing the bean using the class loader. In this case we don't provide BeanInfo classes for our grails domain classes so this call is redundant. I found some information where you can provide a custom BeanInfoFactory to bypass this and exclude your packages but I couldn't find how to configure it with Grails.
Also searching the springframework documentation there is a configuration option you can pass Introspector.IGNORE_ALL_BEANINFO that will tell CachedIntorspectionResults to never look up the bean classes. However this was not available in version 3.1.4 of springframework which was current for grails 2.2.4. The newer versions do appear to have this option.
So, if using BeanUtils you can't by pass this initial lookup on the class loader. However subsequent loaders should be cached by CachedIntrospectionResults. Unfortunately this doesn't happen in our scenario. There looks to be a bug in the test to see if the lookup is cacheable. See more info on this below.
The fix was ultimately to fall back to use pure reflection. Rather than use:
beanWrapper.getPropertyValue(property.getName());
To use:
PropertyDescription pd = BeanUtils.getPropertyDescriptor(domainObject.getClass(), property.getName())
pd.readMethod.invoke(domainObject)
Where the pd is cached.
After fixing this the profiler still showed a lack of caching on CachedIntorspectionResults for the out of the box grails marshaller. This was due to the bad caching implementation in CachedIntrospectionResults. The work around for this was to add the correct class loader to the acceptedClassLoaders in the CachedIntrospectionResults.
public class EnhanceCachedIntrospectionResultsAcceptedClassLoadersListener implements ServletContextListener {
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) {
CachedIntrospectionResults.acceptClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getParent());
}
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) {
CachedIntrospectionResults.clearClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getParent());
Introspector.flushCaches();
}
}
Note that it was required to add the parent to the accepted class loader list rather than the current class loader. Not sure if this is specific to grails or not but this fixed the issue. I'm not sure if there may be a side effect to this fix.
In summary we went from 10 requests/sec in the original setup to 120 requests/sec after using direct reflection and fixing the CachedIntrospectionResults cache.
However the real eye opened was that if we use a 1-1 marshaller per domain class we were seeing another x2 improvement in performance over the generic marshaller where we test objects for whether they're instances of class etc. We're saving a lot of code with the generic marshaller but there's a lot more work to do to get comparable performance to writing a 1-1 marshaller.
Hopefully this will be useful to someone else who runs into this ...
I'm experiencing a discrepancy between the first compilation of a Grails app and the compilation that happens when a file changes while the app is running.
Background:
My app creates some spring beans from Spring LDAP (docs) using conf/spring/resources.groovy.
I have an LdapUser.groovy class in src/groovy (I'm using it similarly to a domain class, except it isn't in grails-app/domain as it doesn't map to a database table).
In BootStrap.groovy I register a JSON marshaller for LdapUser (using JSON.registerObjectMarshaller).
I have a controller with an index method that responds a list of LdapUser objects. This renders correctly in JSON (according to the marshaller).
With that background, here are the pieces of the problem:
When the show method, which responds a single LdapUser, gets called, I get an exception that LdapUser cannot be converted to grails.converters.JSON. (fair enough)
But, if I save the LdapUser.groovy file, thus invoking a recompile on the file while the app is running, the JSON marshaller suddenly works fine.
Before saving the LdapUser.groovy, my controller has a to an LdapUserRepo (a class instantiated via an #EnableLdapRepositories annotation on the controller), but this reference becomes null after I save LdapUser.groovy. I'm not sure how this relates to the problem, as I was also able to reproduce the problem in a controller lacking an injected LdapUserRepo (but with the annotated controllers still in the app).
I also at one point was setting an asType method on the LdapUser class, which was called as expected before the save-invoked recompile. After the recompile, however, my asType method was no longer called and the JSON marshaller was taking over. ( I was doing exception-worthy things in the asType that were throwing before recompile and not throwing after... )
My understanding of the problem is therefore:
Somehow the asType method of the LdapUser.groovy class is not being automatically generated on first compile when running the app, but is being generated on subsequent compiles.
The LdapUser class is tied to the LdapUserRepo in more ways than merely being a type the Repo uses, and the recompile is not reflecting that connection correctly.
Methods rendering lists of objects are somehow unaffected by the asType method. This leads me to believe that the JSON marshaller gets called directly on list elements (instead of via asType) when the list asType has been called (whether or not the "as" operation is implicit...).
My question then is:
what is the Grails compiler doing differently on run-app vs on compile while app is running that could be causing this behavior?
how can I restructure things to ensure it works properly out of the box?
If I need to RTFM, what would be the FM section? (My google-fu is sadly quite weak).
Note: this question is vaguely similar, but doesn't have any meaningfulness to the answer:
Grails: Defining a JSON custom marshaller as static method in domain
I've been running into endless problems attempting to use Windsor with Web API and injecting HttpRequestMessage into downstream dependencies of a controller. Since I've tried all the matching answers on Stackoverflow, I'd like to ask the question in a different way:
In Castle Windsor, how can I resolve a component instance while supplying a value for a downstream dependency? That is, the supplied value is required by a component that is required by the component being resolved.
For context, I'm trying to inject HttpRequestMessage so that I can use it to resolve the request context (primarily to resolve an absolute URL).
Edit I'd also like to point out that I don't currently have a dependency on Web Host / System.Web and I'd rather not change that.
A proper approach is to
Create IMyDesiredRouteParameterProvider
Implement it. Get the current request inside it and get the url
Register it and inject it in the desired dependent class via constructor.
I made myself such an implementation and I can say that this way it works fine. You can make Web.Infrastructure assembly and put the implementation there. Or put both the interface and the implementation there if you are going to reference it from another web module.
using System;
using System.Web;
namespace RouteParameterProvider
{
interface IMyRouteParameterProvider
{
string GetRouteParameter();
}
public class ControllerActionMethodRouteParameterProvider : IMyRouteParameterProvider
{
public string GetRouteParameter()
{
string Parameter = HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] as string;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter))
{
throw new InvalidOperationException();
}
return Parameter;
}
}
}
You can get every possible thing that the Request Context contains from :
HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext
And it will be better if you rethink your design decision :
I need HttpRequestMessage to be regstered prior to creating each
instance of SomethingController so that it will be available down at
the LinkGenerator layer.
Containers are to be initialized at runtime and then used to resolve.
I need HttpRequestMessage to be regstered prior to creating each
instance of SomethingController so that it will be available down at
the LinkGenerator layer.
It sounds like you want to register an item with the container at runtime, post-startup. In general, this is not a good practice--registration should be a discrete event that happens when the app is fired up, and the container's state should not be changed during runtime.
Dependency Injection is about resolving service components, not runtime state--state is generally passed via methods (method injection). In this case it sounds like your LinkGenerator component needs access to the ambient state of the request.
I'm not that familiar with HttpRequestMessage, but this answer seems to show that it is possible to retreive it from HttpContext.Current. You could make this a method on your LinkGenerator class, or wrap this call in a separate component that gets injected into LinkGenerator (HttpRequestMessageProvider?). The latter would be my preferred method, as it allows LinkGenerator to be more testable.
Given the lack of a clean way of doing this and Web API not providing information as to the hosted endpoint beyond per-request context objects, I ended up injecting the base url from configuration.
Is this library by Mark Seemann the answer? In the description he writes explicitly :
This approach enables the use of Dependency Injection (DI) because the
request can be injected into the services which require it.
Then gives an example :
// Inside an ApiController
var uri = this.Url.GetLink(a=> a.GetById(1337));
By which you can then pass the URL down the road in the service that you have injected in the controller.
UPDATE :
Mark Seemann wrote about the same exact problem here:
"Because HttpRequestMessage provides the context you may need to
compose dependency graphs, the best extensibility point is the
extensibility point which provides an HttpRequestMessage every time a
graph should be composed. This extensibility point is the
IHttpControllerActivator interface:..."
This way you can pass request context information to a component deep in the object graph by getting from the HttpRequestMessage and passing it to the DI container.
Just take a look at the interface of IHttpControllerActivator.
The WEB API framework gets the IHttpControllerActivator through DependencyResolver. You probably already replaced it by your CastleWindsorDependencyResolver. Now you have to implement and register your HttpControllerActivator and register it.
When the WEB API framework gets IHttpControllerActivator from DependencyResolver (your Castle Windsor DR) and calls IHttpControllerActivator.Create() it will pass you the HttpRequestMessage. You can get your info from there and pass it to the your CastleDR before you call Resolve(typeof(MyController)) which will resolve the whole object graph - that means you will have MyHttpContextInfo to inject in your XYZComponent deep in the resolution stack.
This way tou are passing the arguments in the last possible moment but it is still possible. In Castle Windsor I make such passing of arguments though CreationContext.AdditionalArguments["myArgument"];.
Update: I think is down to a Windsor configuration, does any one have any idea as to what I have not configured correctly with Windsor?
I am currently using Envers within a C# WebApi project. Windsor is used for IoC.
I have a custom RevisionEntity which add a User property to audit the user who has made the data change.
To ensure all configurations were correct I started off with a "simple string here" being added in the NewRevision method;
public class AuditRevisionListener : IRevisionListener
{
public void NewRevision(object revisionEntity)
{
((AuditRevision)revisionEntity).User = "Simple string here";
}
}
and all persisted as expected.
Next step is to achieve a full User object to which I need to obtain the UserService;
public class AuditRevisionListener : IRevisionListener
{
public void NewRevision(object revisionEntity)
{
var userServices = (IUserServices)GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.DependencyResolver.GetService(typeof(IUserServices));
var user = userServices.GetRequestingUser();
((AuditRevision)revisionEntity).User = user;
}
}
However, the DependencyResolver.GetService is throwing the error;
"Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: 'Scope cache was already disposed. This is most likely a bug in the calling code.'. "
UPDATE
I have now created a demo project available at https://github.com/ScottFindlater/WindsorEnversIssue
On first setting up the solution all will run fine because the custom Envers RevisionListener is not performing any dependency resolving.
Run the solution which performs a GET to the HomeController, which simply loads one User and modifies another;
Dependency resolving is shown to be working as there is an ActionFilter called DependencyResolverDoesWork which successfully resolves the UserServices.
Envers is shown to be working as the UserAudit table is populated.
To “turn on” the dependency resolving in the customer RevisionListener navigate to; Domain NHibernate project, Auditing folder, AuditRevisionListener class, NewRevision method and uncomment the 2 lines of code.
Full rebuild and then run the solution again and the project will run time exception in the WindsorDependencyResolver class, GetService method with “Cannot access a disposed object”, and clicking the View Detail Action expands this message to “{"Cannot access a disposed object.\r\nObject name: 'Scope cache was already disposed. This is most likely a bug in the calling code.'."}”.
The comment posted by Roger, thank you so much, which suggests changing the LifeStyle to Singleton does work. However, this demo has been purposefully kept simple and the use of PerWebRequest LifeStyle is needed because the ApplicationServices in the real project has contextual related data injected such as requesting user which is used to enforce security.
I am so stuck now and any pointers/ answers as to what I have setup wrong will be gratefully received. In addition, I know this has been posted at SO and Envers forum, I WILL update an answer on both.
I think is down to a Windsor configuration, does any one have any idea as to what I have not configured correctly with Windsor?
I haven't tried to run your sample, but I think this is down to an interplay between the two http modules defined in your web.config (https://github.com/ScottFindlater/WindsorEnversIssue/blob/master/API%20Endpoints/Web.config)
Castle.MicroKernel.Lifestyle.PerWebRequestLifestyleModule - Controls the lifetime of "per web request" components
APIEndpoints.HttpModules.NHibernateSessionCoordinator - Opens a session and begins a transaction at the beginning of each web request, then commits the transaction and disposes the session at the end of the web request
It is at the point where you commit your transaction - at the end of the request, triggered by NHibernateSessionCoordinator, that any changes you've made to objects within your NHibernate ISession actually get written to the database. This is the point at which Envers does its stuff and, in turn, at which you attempt to resolve IUserService from your Windsor container. The exception is thrown because IUserService is registered with the "per web request" lifestyle and Windsor is treating the current web request as complete and has disposed any objects tied to the request.
Have you tried reversing the order in which the HttpModules are defined, e.g. NHibernateSessionCoordinator before PerWebRequestLifestyleModule? This will result in your NHibernate transaction being committed before per web request components are disposed.
I have a class
public class Broker
{
public Broker(string[] hosts, string endPoint, string port, Type remoteType)
{
}
}
Which I want to configure using Unity XML Configuration, I can configure it using code in C# as follows already, where "container" is my Unity container
container.Configure<InjectedMembers>()
.ConfigureInjectionFor<Broker>("myBroker",
new InjectionConstructor(hosts, endPoint, port, new InjectionParameter(typeof(IMyBrokeredObject))));
and it will happly resolve using the normal unity calls
container.Resolve("myBroker");
But currently my xml cannot resolve the final parameter IMyBrokeredObject, I get a resolution exception, as Unity is trying to resolve the type insted of simply injecting the type, as it does in the code above.
Any Ideas?
Have you defined the type in the configuration file:
<unity>
<typeAliases>
<typeAlias alias="IMyBrokeredObject" type="MyAssembly.IMyBrokeredObject, MyAssembly" />
</typeAliases>
<containers>
<container>
<types>
<!-- Views -->
<type type="IMyBrokeredObject" mapTo="MyAssembly.MyBrokeredObjectImplementation, MyAssembly" />
But my problem is that there is no implementation available for the IMyBrokeredObject, what is actually happening in the background of this is that the broker provides remote objects given an interface, the actual implementation is somewhere else.
In code I can get the container to provide an broker by giving an "InjectionParameter", I cannot find out how to do this in the xml configuration.
its tricky because I dont want the container to give an instance of the interface but to actually pass the interface as is, the "InjectionParameter" is a store for a value, the stored value is handed in when the object is created by the container, as is. What I am looking for is the required configuration xml to create the InjectionParameter and give it the value, if that is at all possible?