netty grpc errors out in ThreadLocal in a virtual thread context

[doctorpangloss]

Version

4.4.2 (latest)

Context

Suppose I create a netty grpc server on a virtual thread context. Observe the following error when the server is stopped:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.util.List.remove(Object)" because the return value of "java.lang.ThreadLocal.get()" is null
    at io.vertx.grpc.VertxServer$ActualServer.lambda$stop$7(VertxServer.java:136)
    at io.vertx.core.impl.ContextInternal.dispatch(ContextInternal.java:264)
    at io.vertx.await.impl.VirtualThreadContext.lambda$run$1(VirtualThreadContext.java:102)
    at java.base/java.lang.VirtualThread.run(VirtualThread.java:305)
    at java.base/java.lang.VirtualThread$VThreadContinuation.lambda$new$0(VirtualThread.java:177)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.vm.Continuation.enter0(Continuation.java:327)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.vm.Continuation.enter(Continuation.java:320)

For context:

public class VertxServer extends Server {

  private static final ConcurrentMap<ServerID, ActualServer> map = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

  private static class ActualServer {
...
    final ThreadLocal<List<ContextInternal>> contextLocal = new ThreadLocal<>();
...
    void stop(ContextInternal context, Promise<Void> promise) {
      boolean shutdown = count.decrementAndGet() == 0;
      context.runOnContext(v -> {
        group.removeWorker(context.nettyEventLoop());
        // ERROR LINE
        contextLocal.get().remove(context);
        if (shutdown) {
          map.remove(id);
          context.executeBlocking(p -> {
...

Not sure what the solution is here.

Do you have a reproducer?

(Investigating)

[vietj]

have you tried the new Vert.x gRPC implementation ? I believe it should work.

[doctorpangloss]

it does but I am blocked by this - https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vertx-grpc/issues/28