[Solved] REST Service: Unable to create new reference LazyLoadedFilterReference

After some hours of searching and testing, I found the solution and want to share it with you, so you may get the answer faster.

I have a REST API method:

    @POST
    @AnonymousAllowed    // check permissions separately (see below)
    @Path("import")
    @RequestType(value = List.class, genericTypes = {ManageBranchesRestProject.class})
    @Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public Response importIssueBranches(@DefaultValue("[]") final List<ManageBranchesRestIssue> lstIssues)
    {
        ....
        ....
    }

This lead to the following exception:

[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 2017-05-23 15:30:18,045 http-nio-2990-exec-7 ERROR admin 930x306x1 3x3yoa 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 /rest/branches/1.0/branches/BIB/all [c.a.plugin.servlet.DefaultServletModuleManager] Unable to create new reference LazyLoadedFilterReference{descriptor=com.besi.jira.plugins.customfield-fixbranches:manage-branches-rest-filter (Branches REST API), filterConfig=com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.PluginFilterConfig@5581d22e}
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: com.sun.jersey.spi.inject.Errors$ErrorMessagesException
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 	at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 	at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:112)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 	at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.DefaultServletModuleManager.getInstance(DefaultServletModuleManager.java:447)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 	at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.DefaultServletModuleManager.getFilter(DefaultServletModuleManager.java:440)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 	at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.DefaultServletModuleManager.getFilters(DefaultServletModuleManager.java:300)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 	at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.servlet.DefaultRestServletModuleManager.getFilters(DefaultRestServletModuleManager.java:121)

There was a typo (classical copy&paste mistake) in it: ManageBranchesRestProject.class should be named ManageBranchesRestIssue.class.

But because of this exception I had to search for a long time until I found the cause.

Maybe this helps.

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Thanks for sharing both the problem and the solution.

If you add your solution as a separate reply to your post you could even mark it solved as explained here: Community Update #1: Accepted Solutions - #2

There was a typo (classical copy&paste mistake) in it: ManageBranchesRestProject.class should be named ManageBranchesRestIssue.class.

But because of this exception I had to search for a long time until I found the cause.

Maybe this helps.

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Sorry for the bump, but the same error brought me here and helped me figure out why, although the root cause was different.

I ran into this error as well, in a separate way - I had the path annotation defined the same in two files (copy paste error :slight_smile: )

In two separate files, I had @Path("/config") defined at the top of the class. This caused the same error as listed above.

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Don’t be sorry! It’s helpful to know that this exception is generally just hiding the real underlying error message. In my case, the problem was that my filter’s constructor wasn’t public.

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I had the same problem because of the dependency

<dependency>
            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

using with annotation @AnonymousAllowed. Solution: I deleted @AnonymousAllowed and dependency for this and changed dependency of javax.ws.rs to

<dependency>
            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Hope, it would help someone because it took long time to find out.

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I had the error too. My case was that the before mentioned dependency to javax.ws.rs was not included in the pom.

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If anybody got there error fixed with this solution, does anyone know why changing library to new version fixes it?