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Kuan Po Tseng commented on KAFKA-16544: --------------------------------------- gentle ping [~chia7712], are you working on this one ? Maybe I can give it a try ! :) > DescribeTopicsResult#allTopicIds and DescribeTopicsResult#allTopicNames > should return null instead of throwing NPE > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-16544 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-16544 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Chia-Ping Tsai > Assignee: Chia-Ping Tsai > Priority: Major > > {code:java} > * @return A future map from topic names to descriptions which can be > used to check > * the status of individual description if the describe topic > request used > * topic names, otherwise return null, this request succeeds only > if all the > * topic descriptions succeed > {code} > According the docs, it should return null if we try to get the result > unmatched to the request. For example, we call `allTopicNames` in passing > `TopicIdCollection`. However, the current implementation will throw NPE > directly -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)