SA-18885

Summary

When connecting to a restservice, a nullpointer is thrown at pyInvokeRESTConnector, step 12, in the line:
httpResponse = client.execute(httpRequest, (com.pega.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext)localContext);
 

Error Messages

com.pega.pegarules.pub.services.ConnectorException: Caught unhandled exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.pegarules.generated.activity.ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_eb7dafe6dac00116b03b951c8add1e9a.step12_circum0(ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_eb7dafe6dac00116b03b951c8add1e9a.java:2913)
at com.pegarules.generated.activity.ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_eb7dafe6dac00116b03b951c8add1e9a.perform(ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_eb7dafe6dac00116b03b951c8add1e9a.java:260)
at com.pega.pegarules.session.internal.mgmt.Executable.doActivity(Executable.java:3500)
at com.pegarules.generated.activity.ra_action_invoke_6a91441c4f6e5048b63360383ae1b952.step7_circum0(ra_action_invoke_6a91441c4f6e5048b63360383ae1b952.java:1002)
at com.pegarules.generated.activity.ra_action_invoke_6a91441c4f6e5048b63360383ae1b952.perform(ra_action_invoke_6a91441c4f6e5048b63360383ae1b952.java:172)
at com.pega.pegarules.session.internal.mgmt.Executable.doActivity(Executable.java:3500)
.............
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1881)
Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.stripDotSuffix(NTLMEngineImpl.java:175)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.convertHost(NTLMEngineImpl.java:183)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.access$4(NTLMEngineImpl.java:182)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl$Type1Message.<init>(NTLMEngineImpl.java:764)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.getType1Message(NTLMEngineImpl.java:128)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.generateType1Msg(NTLMEngineImpl.java:1298)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMScheme.authenticate(NTLMScheme.java:125)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.AuthSchemeBase.authenticate(AuthSchemeBase.java:124)
at com.pega.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestTargetAuthentication.process(RequestTargetAuthentication.java:105)
at com.pega.apache.http.protocol.ImmutableHttpProcessor.process(ImmutableHttpProcessor.java:108)
at com.pega.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.preProcess(HttpRequestExecutor.java:174)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:462)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:825)
at com.pega.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:759)
at com.pegarules.generated.activity.ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_eb7dafe6dac00116b03b951c8add1e9a.step12_circum0(ra_action_pyinvokerestconnector_eb7dafe6dac00116b03b951c8add1e9a.java:2467)
... 115 more

Steps to Reproduce

Run a Rest connect with NTLM authentication.

Root Cause

The root error found in your Pega logs is:
 
Caused by: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.stripDotSuffix(NTLMEngineImpl.java:175)
        at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.convertHost(NTLMEngineImpl.java:183)
        at com.pega.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineImpl.access$4(NTLMEngineImpl.java:182)
 
 
These affected classes are in fact coming from a third partly library called HTTP client.
User is experiencing a defect from this third partly library, which generate this error when hostname and domain are not populated.
 

Resolution

​Fill Hostname and domain in the authentication rule used by the Rest connector.