Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4562#discussion_r134699645
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/netty/NettyMessage.java
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@@ -220,9 +220,7 @@ void releaseBuffer() {
@Override
ByteBuf write(ByteBufAllocator allocator) throws IOException {
- if (null == buffer) {
- throw new NullPointerException();
- }
+ Preconditions.checkNotNull(buffer, "When deserializing
the buffer should have to be requested first.");
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Actually, the message should rather be `No buffer instance to serialize.`
since the constructor leading to this code path is only used for
de-serialization.
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