Andy Bryant created KAFKA-6378: ---------------------------------- Summary: NullPointerException on KStream-GlobalKTable leftJoin when KeyValueMapper returns null Key: KAFKA-6378 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6378 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: streams Affects Versions: 1.0.0 Reporter: Andy Bryant
On a Stream->GlobalKTable leftJoin if the KeyValueMapper returns null, the stream fails with a NullPointerException (see stacktrace below). On Kafka 0.11.0.0 the stream processes this successfully, calling the ValueJoiner with the table value set to null. The use-case for this is joining a stream to a table containing reference data where the stream foreign key may be null. There is no straight-forward workaround in this case with Kafka 1.0.0 without having to resort to either generating a key that will never match or branching the stream for records that don't have the foreign key. Exception in thread "workshop-simple-example-client-StreamThread-1" java.lang.NullPointerException at java.base/java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(Objects.java:221) at org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.CachingKeyValueStore.get(CachingKeyValueStore.java:136) at org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.CachingKeyValueStore.get(CachingKeyValueStore.java:35) at org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.InnerMeteredKeyValueStore.get(InnerMeteredKeyValueStore.java:184) at org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.MeteredKeyValueBytesStore.get(MeteredKeyValueBytesStore.java:116) at org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.internals.KTableSourceValueGetterSupplier$KTableSourceValueGetter.get(KTableSourceValueGetterSupplier.java:49) at org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.internals.KStreamKTableJoinProcessor.process(KStreamKTableJoinProcessor.java:56) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorNode$1.run(ProcessorNode.java:46) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamsMetricsImpl.measureLatencyNs(StreamsMetricsImpl.java:208) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorNode.process(ProcessorNode.java:124) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorContextImpl.forward(ProcessorContextImpl.java:85) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.SourceNode.process(SourceNode.java:80) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamTask.process(StreamTask.java:216) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.AssignedTasks.process(AssignedTasks.java:403) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.TaskManager.process(TaskManager.java:317) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.processAndMaybeCommit(StreamThread.java:942) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.runOnce(StreamThread.java:822) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.runLoop(StreamThread.java:774) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.run(StreamThread.java:744) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)