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Bug 1127332

Summary:	[GSS] (6.3.1) Invalid boolean values are set to 'false' instead of null
Product:	[JBoss] JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6	Reporter:	Kyle Lape <klape>
Component:	XML Frameworks	Assignee:	Navin Surtani <nsurtani>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Pavel Slavicek <pslavice>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Tom WELLS <twells>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.3.0	CC:	bbaranow, bmaxwell, cdewolf, jason.greene, jbliznak, lcarlon, myarboro, pslavice, twells
Target Milestone:	CR1	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	EAP 6.3.1
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Boolean parsing logic in JAXB does not conform to JAXB 2.2 spec, section B.3.8.1. Consequence: java.lang.Boolean fields are set to false instead of null when incoming xs:boolean values are invalid. Fix: Fix the parsing logic to conform to JAXB 2.2 spec, section B.3.8.1. Result: java.lang.Boolean values are consistently set to null when the incoming value is invalid.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1127329	Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-10-13 18:38:55 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1127329
Bug Blocks:	1102082, 1127327

Description Kyle Lape 2014-08-06 16:42:05 UTC

There are certain illegal values of an xs:boolean that return false when they should return null, namely values that start with t and f. In addition, if the string literals "t" and "f" are passed in, this will cause an unmarshalling error:

Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 1
  at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.charAt(AbstractStringBuilder.java:203) [rt.jar:1.7.0_55]
  at java.lang.StringBuilder.charAt(StringBuilder.java:72) [rt.jar:1.7.0_55]
  at com.sun.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl._parseBoolean(DatatypeConverterImpl.java:260)

Comment 1 Kyle Lape 2014-08-06 16:44:27 UTC

Upstream Jira: https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-1019

Comment 3 Jan Blizňák 2014-09-01 17:15:26 UTC

Verified on 6.3.1.CP.CR1 

Reproducers from customer case were used.