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Flavio Junqueira commented on ZOOKEEPER-2804: --------------------------------------------- Good catch [~Bhupendra]! Do you want to submit a patch? > Node creation fails with NPE if ACLs are null > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: ZOOKEEPER-2804 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2804 > Project: ZooKeeper > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Bhupendra Kumar Jain > > If null ACLs are passed then zk node creation fails with NPE > {code} > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor.removeDuplicates(PrepRequestProcessor.java:1301) > at > org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor.fixupACL(PrepRequestProcessor.java:1341) > at > org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor.pRequest2Txn(PrepRequestProcessor.java:519) > at > org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor.pRequest(PrepRequestProcessor.java:1126) > at > org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor.run(PrepRequestProcessor.java:178) > {code} > Below APIs have problem. > {code} > public void create(final String path, byte data[], List<ACL> acl, > CreateMode createMode, StringCallback cb, Object ctx) > public void create(final String path, byte data[], List<ACL> acl, > CreateMode createMode, Create2Callback cb, Object ctx) > {code} > Solution: > a) Need to handle NULL ACLs in removeDuplicates method in server. > b) Also add the client side validation for null / empty ACL for above API > similar to other create API -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)