WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred

pablo · March 14, 2022, 11:02am

@chaitra As per the message, this will be fixed in the future release. It has been already reported to Dev team. It can be ignored for now.

github.com/opensearch-project/security

warning: "illegal reflective access operation has occurred" in Base64Helper$DescriptorNameSetter

opened 04:24PM - 14 Jan 22 UTC

closed 03:28PM - 21 Aug 23 UTC

rursprung

bug triaged

**Describe the bug** the following message is printed to the log after the node… has started an initialised: ```json {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2022-01-14T15:51:40,430Z", "level": "INFO", "component": "o.o.s.c.ConfigurationRepository", "cluster.name": "test-opensearch", "node.name": "test-opensearch-0", "message": "Node 'test-opensearch-0' initialized", "cluster.uuid": "V-4_N73oSNeqHcQz1_TGPQ", "node.id": "yqbeGcGeRdir3d_mmE_4Dw" } {"type": "deprecation", "timestamp": "2022-01-14T15:51:40,777Z", "level": "DEPRECATION", "component": "o.o.d.c.m.IndexNameExpressionResolver", "cluster.name": "test-opensearch", "node.name": "test-opensearch-0", "message": "this request accesses system indices: [.opendistro_security], but in a future major version, direct access to system indices will be prevented by default", "cluster.uuid": "V-4_N73oSNeqHcQz1_TGPQ", "node.id": "yqbeGcGeRdir3d_mmE_4Dw" } WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.opensearch.security.support.Base64Helper$DescriptorNameSetter (file:/opt/avaloq/opensearch/plugins/opensearch-security/opensearch-security-1.2.3.0.jar) to field java.io.ObjectStreamClass.name WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.opensearch.security.support.Base64Helper$DescriptorNameSetter WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release ``` **To Reproduce** start a node of opensearch with the opensearch security plugin enabled. note that i started it as a single-node cluster. **Expected behavior** no such warnings. **Plugins** * opensearch 1.2.3 (not really a plugin, listed for completeness sake) * opensearch-security 1.2.3.0 * [opensearch-prometheus-exporter](https://github.com/aparo/opensearch-prometheus-exporter/) 1.2.3 **Screenshots** n/a **Host/Environment (please complete the following information):** * OS: RedHat UBI 7 as container base image * running on OpenShift 4 (Kubernetes v1.19) **Additional context** n/a

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