Roger Hoover created KAFKA-2105: ----------------------------------- Summary: NullPointerException in client on MetadataRequest Key: KAFKA-2105 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2105 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: clients Affects Versions: 0.8.2.1 Reporter: Roger Hoover Priority: Minor
With the new producer, if you accidentally pass null to KafkaProducer.partitionsFor(null), it will cause the IO thread to throw NPE. Uncaught error in kafka producer I/O thread: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils.utf8Length(Utils.java:174) at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.Type$5.sizeOf(Type.java:176) at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.ArrayOf.sizeOf(ArrayOf.java:55) at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.Schema.sizeOf(Schema.java:81) at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.Struct.sizeOf(Struct.java:218) at org.apache.kafka.common.requests.RequestSend.serialize(RequestSend.java:35) at org.apache.kafka.common.requests.RequestSend.<init>(RequestSend.java:29) at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.metadataRequest(NetworkClient.java:369) at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.maybeUpdateMetadata(NetworkClient.java:391) at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:188) at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:191) at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:122) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)