Hello, I have seen couple of occurrences of the NullPointerException in Storm Kafka Spout with same stack trace as in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-3032
Using Storm 1.2.3, with Kafka Client at 2.0.1 version, connected to a cluster of Kafka Brokers at 2.2.1 version. Since the stack traces seems to tell that the NullPointerException occurs in some code related to statistics computation, wouldn't it be better to fix the issue by catching the NullPointerException to avoid blocking Kafka consumption ? Kind regards, Alexandre Vermeerbergen
