getWriter() already called

Hi,

We’ve upgraded our version of Camunda to 7.11.0 and when using our angular app and the /tasklist app, we are noticing a number of errors status that the getWriter() method has already been invoked.

On the UI, we can see the following:

" Communication Error : The application received an unexpected -1 response from the server. Try to refresh the page or login and out of the application."

And in the logs:

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: getWriter() has already been called for this response
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1013)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:897)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:634)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:882)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:741)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:712)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:580)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:516)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.custom(StandardHostValve.java:388)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.status(StandardHostValve.java:253)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:175)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:408)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:791)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1417)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getWriter() has already been called for this response
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.getOutputStream(Response.java:548)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.getOutputStream(ResponseFacade.java:210)
	at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.getOutputStream(ServletResponseWrapper.java:100)
	at org.springframework.http.server.ServletServerHttpResponse.getBody(ServletServerHttpResponse.java:83)
	at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.writeInternal(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:255)
	at org.springframework.http.converter.AbstractGenericHttpMessageConverter.write(AbstractGenericHttpMessageConverter.java:103)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.writeWithMessageConverters(AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.java:289)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.HttpEntityMethodProcessor.handleReturnValue(HttpEntityMethodProcessor.java:223)
	at org.springframework.web.method.support.HandlerMethodReturnValueHandlerComposite.handleReturnValue(HandlerMethodReturnValueHandlerComposite.java:82)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:119)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:895)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:800)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:87)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:1038)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:942)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1005)
	... 24 common frames omitted

I know this type of exception surfaces when the response object has been written to and flushed, but what troubles me is that the older version of Camunda didn’t cause this to happen and since upgrading, it’s happening an awful lot.

This uses the embedded tomcat spring starter. Any ideas? The only other thing I can think of is the chucking mechanism used by Tomcat that might cause this.