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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-1434: -------------------------------------- My brain must not be working -- this happens on branch 1.4, 1.4.3 and branch 1.5. It just must have been a new codepath I was executing. Dropping priority and changing the type from bug to improvement as this was what has always been the case. > NullPointerException thrown by ColumnVisibility#flatten() with empty > visibility > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ACCUMULO-1434 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1434 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: client > Affects Versions: 1.5.0, 1.4.3 > Reporter: Josh Elser > > I called flatten() on an empty ColumnVisibility (e.g. "") and got an NPE. It > would be nice if the class itself could handle the side-case for an empty > colvis -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira