Null Pointer Exception with slf4j-log4j12-1.7.30 (Fluent-logger incompatible with the new version)

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#89 opened on Aug 22, 2020 3 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 42/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: java
Domain: observability-sre

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Reproduce the failure with slf4j-log4j12 1.7.30 and compare it with 1.7.18 using the spark-submit scenario. Read FluentLogger.getLogger, FluentLoggerFactory.getLogger, and RawSocketSender initialization first. Done means FluentLogger.getLogger no longer throws a NullPointerException with the newer SLF4J version and the existing logging path remains usable.

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Description

When running spark-submit with slf4j-log4j12-1.7.18.jar in the ClassPath, FluentLogger works with no issues.
When we use version 1.7.30 which comes with Spark3.0, Fluentlogger.getLogger throws a null pointer exception.

This is the offending commit introduced in 1.7.19 which was done to fix a NullPointerException. Its force initializing rootLogger to fix a NPE in multithreaded scenarios looks like. The irony is this is the commit which is causing NullPointerException for us
https://github.com/qos-ch/slf4j/commit/111b8e581e247b33bb2fe66bd0118399e0b49a90

Can we upgrade the version of slf4j-api in FluentLogger to latest 1.7.30 and make it compatible?

hdiuser@hn0-d0140a:/usr/hdp/4.1-0/spark2/jars$ spark-submit --version
SPARK_MAJOR_VERSION is set to 2, using Spark2
Unexpected problem occured during version sanity check
Reported exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.versionSanityCheck(LoggerFactory.java:267)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.performInitialization(LoggerFactory.java:126)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.java:412)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:357)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:383)
at org.fluentd.logger.sender.RawSocketSender.(RawSocketSender.java:34)
at org.fluentd.logger.FluentLoggerFactory.getLogger(FluentLoggerFactory.java:72)
at org.fluentd.logger.FluentLoggerFactory.getLogger(FluentLoggerFactory.java:51)
at org.fluentd.logger.FluentLogger.getLogger(FluentLogger.java:40)
at com.mdsdclient.MdsLogger.(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.logger.HdInsightLoggerLinux.(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.logger.HdInsightLoggerFactory.getLogger(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.appendercore.AnonymizeLogAppenderCommon.getLogger(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.appendercore.AnonymizeLogAppenderCommon.(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.log4jappender.AnonymizeLogAppender.activateOptions(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:842)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)
at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.(LogManager.java:127)
at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:66)
at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.(StaticLoggerBinder.java:72)
at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.(StaticLoggerBinder.java:45)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging$.org$apache$spark$internal$Logging$$isLog4j12(Logging.scala:222)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging.initializeLogging(Logging.scala:127)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging.initializeLogIfNecessary(Logging.scala:111)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging.initializeLogIfNecessary$(Logging.scala:105)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.initializeLogIfNecessary(SparkSubmit.scala:75)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.doSubmit(SparkSubmit.scala:83)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$$anon$2.doSubmit(SparkSubmit.scala:1007)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:1016)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.fluentd.logger.FluentLoggerFactory.getLogger(FluentLoggerFactory.java:72)
at org.fluentd.logger.FluentLoggerFactory.getLogger(FluentLoggerFactory.java:51)
at org.fluentd.logger.FluentLogger.getLogger(FluentLogger.java:40)
at com.mdsdclient.MdsLogger.(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.logger.HdInsightLoggerLinux.(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.logger.HdInsightLoggerFactory.getLogger(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.appendercore.AnonymizeLogAppenderCommon.getLogger(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.common.appendercore.AnonymizeLogAppenderCommon.(Unknown Source)
at com.log4jappender.AnonymizeLogAppender.activateOptions(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:842)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)
at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.(LogManager.java:127)
at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:66)
at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.(StaticLoggerBinder.java:72)
at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.(StaticLoggerBinder.java:45)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging$.org$apache$spark$internal$Logging$$isLog4j12(Logging.scala:222)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging.initializeLogging(Logging.scala:127)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging.initializeLogIfNecessary(Logging.scala:111)
at org.apache.spark.internal.Logging.initializeLogIfNecessary$(Logging.scala:105)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.initializeLogIfNecessary(SparkSubmit.scala:75)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.doSubmit(SparkSubmit.scala:83)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$$anon$2.doSubmit(SparkSubmit.scala:1007)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:1016)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.java:418)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:357)
at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:383)
at org.fluentd.logger.sender.RawSocketSender.(RawSocketSender.java:34)
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