ArgumentNullException when requesting a Razor Page #56879
Description
Hi, we have a hard-to-reproduce issue and are struggling to find a solution. We serve pages using a custom implementation of the IFileProvider and IFileInfo. On rare occasions, a page request will get a 500 response, and we can find this Exception/StackTrace in our logs:
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'type')
at System.ArgumentNullException.Throw(String paramName)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages.Infrastructure.CompiledPageActionDescriptorFactory.CreateCompiledDescriptor(PageActionDescriptor actionDescriptor, CompiledViewDescriptor viewDescriptor)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages.Infrastructure.DefaultPageLoader.LoadAsyncCore(PageActionDescriptor actionDescriptor, EndpointMetadataCollection endpointMetadata)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages.Infrastructure.PageLoaderMatcherPolicy.ApplyAsyncAwaited(PageLoader pageLoader, CandidateSet candidates, Task`1 actionDescriptorTask, Int32 index)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matching.DfaMatcher.SelectEndpointWithPoliciesAsync(HttpContext httpContext, IEndpointSelectorPolicy[] policies, CandidateSet candidateSet)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.EndpointRoutingMiddleware.<Invoke>g__AwaitMatch|10_1(EndpointRoutingMiddleware middleware, HttpContext httpContext, Task matchTask)
Once a page gets this error, every user requesting the same page will get this error. At the moment, we can only resolve this by restarting the server. Nothing seems to be wrong with the Razor page, as a server restart always resolves the issue.
Is there anything about how we provide a page to the file provider that can result in this exception?