OpenSessionInViewFilter is an unknown filter name in version 6.1.1

[Florencia Hernández, modificado hace 11 años.]

Hi Everyone,

I developed a portlet with the Liferay IDE for LR 6.1.0 CE GA1. I now try to deploy it with LR 6.1.1 CE GA2 and I get the following exception:

Oct 10, 2012 1:50:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase addChildInternal
SEVERE: ContainerBase.addChild: start: 
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/VideoChat-portlet]]
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:895)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:871)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1099)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1621)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Filter mapping specifies an unknown filter name OpenSessionInViewFilter
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.validateFilterMap(StandardContext.java:3003)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addFilterMap(StandardContext.java:2968)
        at org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml.configureContext(WebXml.java:1207)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1357)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:855)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:345)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5161)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
        ... 11 more
Oct 10, 2012 1:50:39 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
SEVERE: Error deploying web application directory /opt/liferay/test-611/liferay-portal-6.1.1-ce-ga2/tomcat-7.0.27/webapps/VideoChat-portlet
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/VideoChat-portlet]]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:898)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:871)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1099)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1621)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)

Here is my web.xml:

<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?-->
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemalocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
    
    <!-- load the spring context -->
    <listener>
        <description>Spring framework global application context.</description>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    
    <!-- listener to let spring know about the web scopes -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

	<filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>OpenSessionInViewFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>ViewRendererServlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewRendererServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>ViewRendererServlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/WEB-INF/servlet/view</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Why is OpenSessionInViewFilter an unknown filter name?

How do I fix this?

TIA,

Flor.

[Juan Gonzalez P, modificado hace 11 años.]

It is a good practice to recompile your portlet to use it in newer versions.

So rebuild your portlet again using 6.1.1 SDK and retry.

[Mika Koivisto, modificado hace 11 años.]

Your web.xml is missing filter declaration for OpenSessionInView that's why it's unknown.

[Florencia Hernández, modificado hace 11 años.]

Hi Mika,

Thanks for the answer. That fixed the issue. But after fixing that I get a huge amount of different exceptions. So I'd better redevelop everything for Liferay 6.1.1.

Regards,

Flor.