I'm running into the following exception when using the link support:
Jan 3, 2011 6:51:21 PM com.sun.jersey.server.linking.impl.FieldDescriptor getFieldValueSEVERE: nulljava.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class com.sun.jersey.server.linking.impl.FieldDescriptor can not access a member of class java.util.zip.ZipConstants with modifiers "public static final" at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:65) at java.lang.reflect.Field.doSecurityCheck(Field.java:960) at java.lang.reflect.Field.getFieldAccessor(Field.java:896) at java.lang.reflect.Field.get(Field.java:358) at com.sun.jersey.server.linking.impl.FieldDescriptor.getFieldValue(FieldDescriptor.java:66) at com.sun.jersey.server.linking.impl.RefProcessor.processLinks(RefProcessor.java:113) at com.sun.jersey.server.linking.impl.RefProcessor.processMember(RefProcessor.java:120) <a lot more of the same> at com.sun.jersey.server.linking.impl.RefProcessor.processLinks(RefProcessor.java:72) at com.sun.jersey.server.linking.LinkFilter.filter(LinkFilter.java:78) at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1310) at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1239) at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1229) at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:420) at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:497) at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:684) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1221) <etc>
The exception is caused by RefProcessor not stopping when it gets to fields of primitive types, for example the following document: <Links><Link>One</Link></Links>
will be processed as follows:- RefProcessor calls processLinks / processMember until it we get to "One" (the string)- from here the string "One" is processed via processLinks, "count" field is found- the int "count" is processed via processLinks, MAX_INTEGER is found- MAX_INTEGER is processed via processLinks, "serialVersionUUID" is found.... etc ...- until the execution finally gets to a JarFile instance where the "CENFLG" field throws the IllegalAccessException.
IMO the types that are outside of user's control (like primitive types, java.lang, etc) should not be processed, it will not only prevent errors like the one above but also speed up response processing.
Thanks- Paul