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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-5289: --------------------------------------- Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2969 +1 looks good. Will put this into my merge pipeline > NPE when using value state on non-keyed stream > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-5289 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5289 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Streaming > Reporter: Timo Walther > Assignee: Stefan Richter > > Using a {{ValueStateDescriptor}} and > {{getRuntimeContext().getState(descriptor)}} on a non-keyed stream leads to > {{NullPointerException}} which is not very helpful for users: > {code} > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamingRuntimeContext.getState(StreamingRuntimeContext.java:109) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)