Github user FelixNeutatz commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/pull/201#discussion_r20670967 --- Diff: flink-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/io/CsvInputFormat.java --- @@ -130,6 +132,13 @@ public OUT readRecord(OUT reuse, byte[] bytes, int offset, int numBytes) { numBytes--; } + //help to prevent null pointer exception in the case of invalid input --- End diff -- in DataSourceTask the previous record is used to get the next record: ```java while (!this.taskCanceled && !format.reachedEnd()) { // build next pair and ship pair if it is valid if ((record = format.nextRecord(record)) != null) { output.collect(record); } } ``` The problem is: when there was an invalid record, the function nextRecord has returned null and the null record will stop the loop to get more records ...
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