fozzie15 commented on code in PR #34258: URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/34258#discussion_r2006236532
########## sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/WatchForKafkaTopicPartitions.java: ########## @@ -189,7 +190,14 @@ static List<TopicPartition> getAllTopicPartitions( kafkaConsumerFactoryFn.apply(kafkaConsumerConfig)) { if (topics != null && !topics.isEmpty()) { for (String topic : topics) { - for (PartitionInfo partition : kafkaConsumer.partitionsFor(topic)) { + List<PartitionInfo> partitionInfoList = kafkaConsumer.partitionsFor(topic); + checkState( + partitionInfoList != null && !partitionInfoList.isEmpty(), Review Comment: Began seeing null pointer exception errors in older versions of kafka. I reintroduced the null check and older versions passed. I suspect that it changed to return an empty list instead of null in a newer version, and as such we will have to check for both to preserve backwards compatibility. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@beam.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org