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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-3905: --------------------------------------- Github user iBuddha closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1564 > remove null from subscribed topics in KafkaConsumer#subscribe > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3905 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3905 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Wish > Components: clients > Affects Versions: 0.10.0.0 > Reporter: Xing Huang > Assignee: Rekha Joshi > Priority: Minor > > Currently, KafkaConsumer's subscribe methods accept Collection<String> as > topics to be subscribed, but a Collection may have null as its element. For > example > {code} > String topic = null; > Collection<String> topics = Arrays.asList(topic); > consumer.subscribe(topics) > {code} > When this happens, consumer will throw a puzzling NullPointerException: > {code} > at org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils.utf8Length(Utils.java:245) > at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.Type$6.sizeOf(Type.java:248) > at > org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.ArrayOf.sizeOf(ArrayOf.java:85) > at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.Schema.sizeOf(Schema.java:89) > at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.Struct.sizeOf(Struct.java:244) > at > org.apache.kafka.common.requests.RequestSend.serialize(RequestSend.java:35) > at > org.apache.kafka.common.requests.RequestSend.<init>(RequestSend.java:29) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient$DefaultMetadataUpdater.request(NetworkClient.java:616) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient$DefaultMetadataUpdater.maybeUpdate(NetworkClient.java:639) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient$DefaultMetadataUpdater.maybeUpdate(NetworkClient.java:552) > at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:258) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.clientPoll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:360) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:224) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:192) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:163) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.ensureCoordinatorReady(AbstractCoordinator.java:179) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.pollOnce(KafkaConsumer.java:970) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:934) > {code} > Maybe it's better to remove null when doing subscription. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)