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Brock Noland updated FLUME-1018:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> Context can cause NullPointerException
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> Key: FLUME-1018
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1018
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Configuration
> Affects Versions: v1.0.0
> Reporter: Hari Shreedharan
> Assignee: Brock Noland
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: v1.1.0
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> Attachments: FLUME-1018-0.patch
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> The new get functions in context class like getInteger, getBoolean etc can
> cause NullPointerException if the configuration key which is being searched
> is not in the context map. This is because the get<Type>(String key) version
> is basically a call to get<Type>(String key, null). Therefore it can return
> null. Java will automatically unbox the value returned by this function if
> the user code accepts it into a native datatype variable rather than a
> wrapper object.
> For example int rollInterval = getInteger("RollInterval") would cause a
> NullPointerException if rollInterval is absent in the context(since
> getInteger would return null). It is common to accept an Integer object into
> an int. We should at the least fix the documentation to suggest that this
> function will return null if the value is not found, and the return value
> should be an Integer/Boolean/Long object, not their native counter parts.
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