Bug 1326805

Summary:	Serialization problems on websphere as a result of BZ-1299549
Product:	[Retired] JBoss BPMS Platform 6	Reporter:	Marco Rietveld <mrietvel>
Component:	Business Central	Assignee:	Shelly McGowan <smcgowan>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Lukáš Petrovický <lpetrovi>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:	Tomas 'Sheldon' Radej <tradej>
Priority:	urgent
Version:	6.3.0	CC:	etirelli, kverlaen, smcgowan, tradej
Target Milestone:	CR1	Keywords:	Regression
Target Release:	6.3.0
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Doc Text:	When Business Central is installed on IBM WebSphere, direct REST calls involving user-defined classes fail due to a serialization issue. The only workaround is using the Java REST client (if possible).	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-03-27 20:13:39 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Marco Rietveld 2016-04-13 12:46:22 UTC

Description of problem:

While https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1299549 fixed the performance problems, unfortunately other problems, in particular custom-type serialization, were caused by the change. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

6.3.0 and 6.2.0.

This BZ is for 6.3.0

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do a REST operation

Actual results:

Not all REST calls are completing correctly. 

The 2 most common issues are either: 
- "Caused by: javax.xml.bind.PropertyException: property "com.ibm.jtc.jax.xml.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler" must be an instance of type com.ibm.jtc.jax.xml.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler, not org.kie.services.client.serial"
- REST operations involving custom-type (user-defined) serialization fail

Expected results:

All REST calls complete successfully. 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Marco Rietveld 2016-04-13 14:08:17 UTC

"Fixed". This is a configuration problem (see the next comment). 

Documentation PR: 
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/kie-wb-distributions/pull/268

Comment 2 Marco Rietveld 2016-04-13 14:09:11 UTC

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1299549#c13

Comment 5 Marco Rietveld 2016-04-20 11:39:54 UTC

Documentation text submitted. 

PR's submitted: 

https://github.com/droolsjbpm/droolsjbpm-integration/pull/442
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/kie-wb-distributions/pull/268

Comment 6 Marco Rietveld 2016-04-20 17:50:26 UTC

Fixed. Commits: 

6.4.x: 
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/droolsjbpm-integration/commit/224900cc
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/kie-wb-distributions/commit/adb0979e

Comment 7 Tomas Livora 2016-04-21 13:57:16 UTC

It seems that these commits fix the bug only partially. I have just tested it on the latest snapshot and while REST client calls with custom types work without any problems, direct REST calls still fail with the same exception:

org.kie.remote.services.exception.KieRemoteServicesDeploymentException: Could not unmarshall user-defined class instance parameter of type...

Comment 10 Tomas 'Sheldon' Radej 2016-04-25 12:16:45 UTC

Documented as a known issue for 6.3. We will adjust the documentation once a permanent fix is found.

Comment 11 Tomas Livora 2016-04-27 08:37:19 UTC

The tests that failed on the snapshot passed on the latest productized build so the issue is completely fixed.

Verified on BPM Suite 6.3.0 CR1