## What is the purpose of the change This PR fixes the NPE described in [Flink-10358](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10358). The issue happens when extending the flink Kinesis connector to consume from dynamodb streams (see also [Flink-4582](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4582)).
## Brief change log Check to avoid NPE been thrown inside `ShardConsumer.java`. ## Verifying this change This change is a trivial rework / code cleanup without any test coverage. ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): (no) - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: (no) - The serializers: (no) - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (no) - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: (no) - The S3 file system connector: (no) ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? (no) [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6708 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
