GitHub user mfenniak opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2087
MINOR: Fix NPE when Connect offset contains non-primitive type When storing a non-primitive type in a Connect offset, the following NullPointerException will occur: ``` 07:18:23.702 [pool-3-thread-1] ERROR o.a.k.c.storage.OffsetStorageWriter - CRITICAL: Failed to serialize offset data, making it impossible to commit offsets under namespace tenant-db-bootstrap-source. This likely won't recover unless the unserializable partition or offset information is overwritten. 07:18:23.702 [pool-3-thread-1] ERROR o.a.k.c.storage.OffsetStorageWriter - Cause of serialization failure: java.lang.NullPointerException: null at org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.OffsetUtils.validateFormat(OffsetUtils.java:51) at org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.OffsetStorageWriter.doFlush(OffsetStorageWriter.java:143) at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSourceTask.commitOffsets(WorkerSourceTask.java:319) ... snip ... ``` The attached patch fixes the specific case where OffsetUtils.validateFormat is attempting to provide a useful error message, but fails to because the schemaType method could return null. This contribution is my original work and I license the work to the project under the project's open source license. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mfenniak/kafka fix-npr-with-clearer-error-message Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2087.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2087 ---- commit 9f4fbefde16d01a6a3ff331be580ee3764675ede Author: Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu.fenn...@replicon.com> Date: 2016-11-01T13:31:58Z Fix exception thrown when non-primitive type is stored in offset ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---