Thanks for the report, entered as: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-268
For the time being you can work around this by setting the threshold to INFO for that class (in log4j.properties). Either that or just set the data to a non-empty value for the znode.
Patrick Kevin Burton wrote:
Creating this node with this ACL: Created /foo setAcl /foo world:anyone:w Causes the exception included below. It's an infinite loop so it's just called over and over again filling my console. I'm just doing an exists( path, true ); ... setting a watch still causes the problem. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jute.Utils.toCSVBuffer(Utils.java:234) at org.apache.jute.CsvOutputArchive.writeBuffer(CsvOutputArchive.java:101) at org.apache.zookeeper.proto.GetDataResponse.toString(GetDataResponse.java:48) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2827) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:115) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$Packet.toString(ClientCnxn.java:230) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2827) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:115) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.readResponse(ClientCnxn.java:586) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.doIO(ClientCnxn.java:626) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:852) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jute.Utils.toCSVBuffer(Utils.java:234) at org.apache.jute.CsvOutputArchive.writeBuffer(CsvOutputArchive.java:101) at org.apache.zookeeper.proto.GetDataResponse.toString(GetDataResponse.java:48) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2827) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:115) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$Packet.toString(ClientCnxn.java:230) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2827) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:115) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.readResponse(ClientCnxn.java:586) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.doIO(ClientCnxn.java:626) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:852)