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Rohini Palaniswamy commented on OOZIE-1835: ------------------------------------------- +1 > NullPointerException from SLAEmailEventListener > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: OOZIE-1835 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-1835 > Project: Oozie > Issue Type: Bug > Components: core > Affects Versions: 4.0.0 > Reporter: Robert Kanter > Assignee: Robert Kanter > Attachments: OOZIE-1835.patch > > > Both the documentation and specification say that the "alert-contact" SLA > field is optional, at least when you don't want to send email notifications. > However, if you don't include it, you get a NullPointerException (though it > doesn't seem to cause any problems): > {noformat} > 2014-04-17 22:02:16,664 ERROR > org.apache.oozie.sla.listener.SLAEmailEventListener: > SERVER[rkanter-5.ent.cloudera.com] USER[-] GROUP[-] TOKEN[-] APP[-] JOB[-] > ACTION[-] Failed to send EndMiss alert email > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.oozie.sla.listener.SLAEmailEventListener.parseAddress(SLAEmailEventListener.java:231) > at > org.apache.oozie.sla.listener.SLAEmailEventListener.setMessageHeader(SLAEmailEventListener.java:262) > at > org.apache.oozie.sla.listener.SLAEmailEventListener.sendSLAEmail(SLAEmailEventListener.java:163) > at > org.apache.oozie.sla.listener.SLAEmailEventListener.onEndMiss(SLAEmailEventListener.java:200) > at > org.apache.oozie.service.EventHandlerService$EventWorker.invokeSLAEventListener(EventHandlerService.java:297) > at > org.apache.oozie.service.EventHandlerService$EventWorker.run(EventHandlerService.java:241) > at > org.apache.oozie.service.SchedulerService$2.run(SchedulerService.java:174) > at > java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304) > at > java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) > at > java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) > {noformat} > We should give a friendlier WARN message instead. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)