TIBCOeddie opened a new issue #9806:
URL: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/9806
**Describe the bug**
NPE seen by the client when it tried to use AUTO_CONSUME against a topic
> (fragment deploy): 2021-03-03 21:28:38.154000-0500
[15819:OperatorThread(default.Java:1)] ERROR
pulsar.PulsarConsumer.default.Java: Fatal error
> (fragment deploy): java.lang.NullPointerException: null
> (fragment deploy): at
org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.schema.AutoConsumeSchema.generateSchema(AutoConsumeSchema.java:154)
> (fragment deploy): at
org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.schema.AutoConsumeSchema.decode(AutoConsumeSchema.java:91)
> (fragment deploy): at
org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.schema.AutoConsumeSchema.decode(AutoConsumeSchema.java:40)
> (fragment deploy): at
org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.MessageImpl.getValue(MessageImpl.java:301)
**To Reproduce**
Consumer created this way:
```
pulsarConsumer =
pulsarClient.newConsumer(org.apache.pulsar.client.api.Schema.AUTO_CONSUME())
.topic(getTopic())
.subscriptionName(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.subscribe();
...
Message<GenericRecord> message = pulsarConsumer.receive(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
if (message == null) continue;
GenericRecord record = message.getValue(); <-- NPE inside
```
**Expected behavior**
No NPE. If there's some configuration that could have been done better, the
error should identify it.
**Additional context**
Java client 2.7.0
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