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mingleizhang commented on FLINK-8423: ------------------------------------- I will fix this issue. > OperatorChain#pushToOperator catch block may fail with NPE > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-8423 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8423 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Streaming > Affects Versions: 1.4.0, 1.5.0 > Reporter: Chesnay Schepler > Assignee: mingleizhang > Priority: Critical > > {code} > @Override > protected <X> void pushToOperator(StreamRecord<X> record) { > try { > // we know that the given outputTag matches our OutputTag so > the record > // must be of the type that our operator (and Serializer) > expects. > @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") > StreamRecord<T> castRecord = (StreamRecord<T>) record; > numRecordsIn.inc(); > StreamRecord<T> copy = > castRecord.copy(serializer.copy(castRecord.getValue())); > operator.setKeyContextElement1(copy); > operator.processElement(copy); > } catch (ClassCastException e) { > // Enrich error message > ClassCastException replace = new ClassCastException( > String.format( > "%s. Failed to push OutputTag with id '%s' to > operator. " + > "This can occur when multiple OutputTags with > different types " + > "but identical names are being used.", > e.getMessage(), > outputTag.getId())); > throw new ExceptionInChainedOperatorException(replace); > } catch (Exception e) { > throw new ExceptionInChainedOperatorException(e); > } > } > {code} > If outputTag is null (as is the case when no sideOutput was defined) the > catch block will crash with a NullPointerException. This may happen if > {{operator.processElement}} throws a ClassCastException. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)