Hi Vincent I will fix it, but I think the error must be in the input stream, because the API clearly states, that if the length is 0, then 0 bytes are returned (and not -1 what you observed). Of course, the agent might also be the problem by encoding a wrong length. Best regards Frank
> Am 22.08.2017 um 10:47 schrieb Vincent Zhang <vinct...@gmail.com>: > > Hi Dear, > I am not sure this is the correct mail address to report bug, please > I found a bug for snmp4j. This is introduced in the latest snmp4j 2.5.7 > release. > > Behaviour: > When server returns an empty string for an oid, the 2.5.7 snmp4j will fail > with fail with exception while the older jars can work. > > Cause > In the latest release, you have improved the performance for BRE. See the > line 799, the length will be 0 if the stream is already empty. In this case, > consume stream line 803 will always get -1, as a result it will fail to pass > the validation in line 804 and an exception will be thrown. > > <image.png> > > Suggested Fix > When the stream is already empty, we need not consume the stream anymore, > instead we can return the empty byte array as the previous snmp4j release did. > > Why I am concerning this > I am not sure if the snmp protocol allows server return an empty string for > an oid, but we do have related case in our product. My customers may have > snmp server returning empty string, so currently I am using the 2.5.6 snmp4j > as workaround. But it will be fantacy if the latest snmp4j release can > support empty string as response. > > > Cheers. > > Vincent _______________________________________________ SNMP4J mailing list SNMP4J@agentpp.org https://oosnmp.net/mailman/listinfo/snmp4j