6.6.0 getNumShards() NPE?!

[Markus Jelsma]

Hello,

Having trouble, again, with CloudDescriptor and friend, getting the number of 
shards of the collection. It sometimes returns 1 for a collection of two 
shards. Having this code:

      cloudDescriptor = core.getCoreDescriptor().getCloudDescriptor();
      return cloudDescriptor.getNumShards();

In some cases cloudDescriptor.getNumShards() throws an NPE. Am i doing 
something wrong?

Thanks,
Markus