Downgrade to org.json:json:20180130 fixes synchrony/smsn-mode#29

[jmatsushita]

In order to troubleshoot synchrony/smsn-mode#29 I bisected commits between smsn 1.4 to develop and narrow down the problem to 636ddb1

I further isolated the problem to the org.json dependency upgrade to org.json:json:20220924. I then bisected the dependency versions and identified that:

• org.json:json:20180813 has the problem
• org.json:json:20180130 didn't have the problem

So 20180813 is the version that introduced the bug. The release notes point at this possible culprit stleary/JSON-java#678

JSONObject(Map) now throws an exception if any of a map keys are null (#405)

I imagine that some code somewhere (probably in a serializer in the Gremlin Script Engine or SessionOpProcessor or Netty) is now throwing because of null values in the map (I assume that's what map keys are null means), which indeed there are quite a lot of in that payload:

{
  "configuration"=
    {
    "version": "1.5",
    "activityLog": "data/activity.log",
    "transactionBufferSize": 100,
    "thingNamespace": "http://example.org/things/",
    "brainstream": null,
    "verbose": false,
    "services": {
      "agentIri": null,
      "broadcast": {
        "host": "255.255.255.255",
        "port": 42000,
        "graph": null,
        "interval": 5000
      },
      "osc": {
        "host": null,
        "port": 42002,
        "graph": null,
        "interval": 0
      },
      "pubSub": {
        "host": null,
        "port": 42001,
        "graph": null,
        "interval": 0
      },
      "server": null,
      "music": null
    },
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "private",
        "code": "a",
        "location": "data/sources/private",
        "color": 16711680
      },
      {
        "name": "personal",
        "code": "s",
        "location": "data/sources/personal",
        "color": 16760832
      },
      {
        "name": "public",
        "code": "d",
        "location": "data/sources/public",
        "color": 57344
      },
      {
        "name": "universal",
        "code": "f",
        "location": "data/sources/universal",
        "color": 255
      }
    ]
  },
  "title"="[no title]"
}

This downgrade is probably a good enough fix for now since the future v2 will look quite different.

[joshsh]

Thank you, @jmatsushita. I will merge this PR after a little more discussion.

Can you verify whether upgrading to the latest org.json version (20230618) would also fix the problem? Has the bug been addressed since 20220924? Otherwise, perhaps we will blunder into the same situation in the future.

I do not see examples of null keys in the payload provided -- only of null values. However, if omitting null values would also solve the problem, then this can be done upstream.

[joshsh]

Note: might as well merge for now, but let's discuss the two points I brought up. Thanks.

[jmatsushita]

Can you verify whether upgrading to the latest org.json version (20230618) would also fix the problem? Has the bug been addressed since 20220924? Otherwise, perhaps we will blunder into the same situation in the future.

I did check that the latest version has the "bug" indeed.

I do not see examples of null keys in the payload provided -- only of null values. However, if omitting null values would also solve the problem, then this can be done upstream.

It could be that there are null keys that weren't printed in the logs. In any case you're right, ensuring that there arent null keys/values in the configuration, would be the more sustainable way to fix this.

I'm still not clear about why we get this payload {"empty":false,"mapType":"java.util.HashMap"} and not an exception. Could there also be some problematic exception handling upstream?