Github user knusbaum commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1316#issuecomment-207676736
What do you mean?
If you mean null payloads are a special case, I disagree. In fact, it's not
a failure at all. We received a null message, so we can perform a NOP as soon
as possible.
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