Troubleshooting: ConfigurationEntry Stack Overflow Error Resolved

posted Mar 29, 2014, 12:55 PM by Eric Patrick   [ updated Mar 29, 2014, 12:57 PM ]
A recent ADR deployment was delayed because the ADR PROD site was causing the application pool to stop each time any .as*x pages were called. The root cause of this was ConfigurationEntry rows pertaining to ConfigurationEntry.

When loading a configuration section for an AbstractObject-derived class, QBO 3 essentially calls the following:
  • ObjectConfiguration.GetSection(className) =>
  • BaseConfiguration.Load(sectionName) =>
  • ConfigurationManager.GetSection(sectionName) (which reads the .config file from disk, deserializing into memory) =>
  • DbConfigurationElementCollection.PostDeserialize() =>
  • ConfigurationEntryObject.LoadConfiguration(source, type) (which supplements statements, filters, etc.)
If one defines a ConfigurationEntry row for ConfigurationEntry itself, ConfigurationEntryObject.LoadConfiguration winds up creating a new ConfigurationEntry object, which calls ObjectConfiguration.GetSection('ConfigurationEntryObject'), which is a infinite loop.

To avoid such accidental configurations, ConfigurationEntryObject.LoadConfiguration(source, type) has been modified to skip attempting to load custom configuration if source == 'ConfigurationEntry.config'.

This means that custom configuration for ConfigurationEntry must be done from ConfigurationEntry.config, and cannot be data-driven.

Should you encounter a QBO 3 site constantly causing the application pool to crash, check the ConfigurationEntry table for any rows where Source = 'ConfigurationEntry.config' and delete the matching rows:

SELECT * FROM ConfigurationEntry WHERE Source = 'ConfigurationEntry.config'

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