Folks, I have a KafkaConsumer that I am trying to read messages from. When I try to create a DataStream from the KafkConsumer (env.addSource()) I get the following exception :
Any idea on how can this happen? java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.pushToOperator(OperatorChain.java:526) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:503) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:483) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:891) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:869) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSourceContexts$NonTimestampContext.collect(StreamSourceContexts.java:103) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSourceContexts$NonTimestampContext.collectWithTimestamp(StreamSourceContexts.java:110) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.AbstractFetcher.emitRecordWithTimestamp(AbstractFetcher.java:264) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Kafka010Fetcher.emitRecord(Kafka010Fetcher.java:86) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Kafka09Fetcher.runFetchLoop(Kafka09Fetcher.java:149) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.run(FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java:449) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.run(StreamSource.java:87) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.run(StreamSource.java:55) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.SourceStreamTask.run(SourceStreamTask.java:95) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:262) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:702) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)