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Activiti REST - Not working in Oracle 12.1.2.0.0

prakashm88 — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 02:10:02 GMT

We are trying to deploy Activiti-REST in Oracle 12.1.2.0.0, and as insisted it supports Servlet 3.0. After completion of the application deployment, when trying to acesss the REST URL, I am getting the following error. ####<Jan 25, 2016 8:58:19 PM EST> <Info> <Deployer> <salsa&g

Re: Activiti REST - Not working in Oracle 12.1.2.0.0

jbarrez — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:47:05 GMT

I've never seen that error to be honest :s
And you're sure it's supporting servlet 3?

Re: Activiti REST - Not working in Oracle 12.1.2.0.0

prakashm88 — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:25:59 GMT

hi Joram,

Thanks for the quick reply. And, Yes 12.1.2.0.0 version supports the Java Servlet 3.0 specs.

Please check the link, https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24329_01/web.1211/e24494/toc.htm#NOTES260

Even though the application is deployed successfully, I get the above stated error when trying to access the REST Urls.

I have tried to extract the REST Services without the Spring Security and deployed it as a separate Web app. I could see the application deployed and running successfully, with Java Servlet 3.0 Spec Deployment descriptors. I guess the issue should somewhere around security here. But some of the service uses the logged in User details. I am struck implementing a custom authentication mechanism as a replacement to Spring Security.

So I have two questions here

1. Any idea on why Authentication might fail, there is a config in Weblogic which screws the Header level auth, but its corrected as said at the URL , http://itechgenie.com/myblog/2015/09/activiti-rest-in-weblogic/ , Still no use.
2. I added a filter to capture all request coming into the app, capture and validate the user thorugh custom headers, but how to set the authenticated user into the session ?, I mean, when I try to access ExplorerApp.get().getLoggedInUser() it returns null. Infact "ExplorerApp.get()" is null. Its not a bean and I am not sure how this object is instantiated or used.

Any help on resolving at least one of the above is much appreciated !!

Thanks.

Re: Activiti REST - Not working in Oracle 12.1.2.0.0

jbarrez — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:44:47 GMT

I have very little websphere experience … so I'm afraid I can't be of much help there …

I don't think 2) will work. For starters, ExplorerApp is part of Activiti Explorer … not REST. That is a thread local that contains the server side UI for the current user. With a filter, i don't think you've passed the point where that threadlocal is set already. You probably need to change https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/master/modules/activiti-webapp-rest2/src/main/java/org/activiti/rest/conf/SecurityConfiguration.java if you need to do as you describe.