#2736 SubjectNameDefault: improve error handling when substitutions fail
Closed: migrated 3 years ago by dmoluguw. Opened 6 years ago by ftweedal.

When there are failed substitutions (usually due to misconfiguration of
profile), there is a somewhat cryptic StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:

[10/Jun/2017:12:02:16][ajp-bio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-1]: BasicProfile: populate() policy setid =serverCertSet          
[10/Jun/2017:12:02:16][ajp-bio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-1]: SubjectNameDefault: populate start                            
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1                                             
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1967)                                                                      
at com.netscape.certsrv.pattern.Pattern.substitute2(Pattern.java:132)                                                
at com.netscape.cms.profile.def.EnrollDefault.mapPattern(EnrollDefault.java:804)                                     
at com.netscape.cms.profile.def.SubjectNameDefault.populate(SubjectNameDefault.java:160)                             
at com.netscape.cms.profile.def.EnrollDefault.populate(EnrollDefault.java:224)                                       
at com.netscape.cms.profile.common.BasicProfile.populate(BasicProfile.java:1101)                                     
at com.netscape.cms.profile.common.EnrollProfile.populate(EnrollProfile.java:1330)                                   
at com.netscape.cms.servlet.cert.CertProcessor.populateRequests(CertProcessor.java:362) 

We should catch exceptions related to failed substitutions in the SubjectNameDefault (and other profile components that use this
substitution machinery) and report a better, more useful error message
to the client.


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6 years ago

Metadata Update from @mharmsen:
- Custom field rhbz adjusted to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1466067
- Issue set to the milestone: 10.5 (was: 10.4)

6 years ago

Metadata Update from @mharmsen:
- Issue priority set to: major (was: critical)
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6 years ago

Per 10.5.x/10.6 Triage: 10.5

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6 years ago

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Metadata Update from @dmoluguw:
- Issue close_status updated to: migrated
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3 years ago

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