Github user uce commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3460#discussion_r105905806 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/runtime/jobmanager/MemoryArchivist.scala --- @@ -183,6 +198,45 @@ class MemoryArchivist(private val max_entries: Int) } } + private def archiveJsonFiles(graph: ArchivedExecutionGraph) { + future { + try { + val rootPath = new Path(flinkConfiguration.getString( --- End diff -- Since this has no default value, we need to check whether the path is null. You should check this before submitting the future to safe work when no directory is configured. I get the following Exception in the logs: ``` 2017-03-14 14:24:41,953 ERROR org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.MemoryArchivist - Failed to archive job. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from a null string at org.apache.flink.core.fs.Path.checkAndTrimPathArg(Path.java:159) at org.apache.flink.core.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:176) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.MemoryArchivist$$anonfun$org$apache$flink$runtime$jobmanager$MemoryArchivist$$archiveJsonFiles$1.apply$mcV$sp(MemoryArchivist.scala:204) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.MemoryArchivist$$anonfun$org$apache$flink$runtime$jobmanager$MemoryArchivist$$archiveJsonFiles$1.apply(MemoryArchivist.scala:203) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.MemoryArchivist$$anonfun$org$apache$flink$runtime$jobmanager$MemoryArchivist$$archiveJsonFiles$1.apply(MemoryArchivist.scala:203) at scala.concurrent.impl.Future$PromiseCompletingRunnable.liftedTree1$1(Future.scala:24) at scala.concurrent.impl.Future$PromiseCompletingRunnable.run(Future.scala:24) at akka.dispatch.TaskInvocation.run(AbstractDispatcher.scala:40) at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:397) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) ```
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