Hi, I'm working on Eclipse sensiNact, which uses Apache Aries Typed Event 1.0.0.
I've encountered a problem where events containing beans with null field values trigger ConversionException errors when sent to the Typed Event Bus. The exception occurs during the conversion process from a custom type to a map. Is there a known workaround for this issue? Here is a sample stack trace: ERROR org.apache.aries.typedevent.bus.impl.EventTask -- The event delivery failed for task type. org.osgi.util.converter.ConversionException: Cannot convert ResourceDataNotification[modelPackageUri= https://eclipse.org/sensinact/default, model=sensinact, provider=sensiNact, service=admin, resource=model, oldValue=null, newValue=sensinact, timestamp=2025-04-29T13:31:22.984828100Z, type=class java.lang.String, metadata={value=sensinact, timestamp=2025-04-29T13:31:22.984828100Z}] to java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object> at org.osgi.util.converter.CustomConverterImpl$ConvertingWrapper.to(CustomConverterImpl.java:177) at org.osgi.util.converter.CustomConverterImpl$ConvertingWrapper.to(CustomConverterImpl.java:151) at org.osgi.util.converter.CustomConverterImpl$ConvertingWrapper.to(CustomConverterImpl.java:146) at org.apache.aries.typedevent.bus.impl.EventConverter.toUntypedEvent(EventConverter.java:292) at org.apache.aries.typedevent.bus.impl.MonitorEventTask.unsafeNotify(MonitorEventTask.java:43) at org.apache.aries.typedevent.bus.impl.EventTask.notifyListener(EventTask.java:29) at org.apache.aries.typedevent.bus.impl.TypedEventBusImpl$EventThread.run(TypedEventBusImpl.java:648) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null at java.base/java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(Objects.java:208) at java.base/java.util.stream.Collectors.lambda$uniqKeysMapAccumulator$1(Collectors.java:180) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$3ReducingSink.accept(ReduceOps.java:169) at java.base/java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.forEachRemaining(Spliterators.java:992) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:509) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:499) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:921) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect(ReferencePipeline.java:682) at org.apache.aries.typedevent.bus.impl.RecordConverter.convert(RecordConverter.java:64) at org.apache.aries.typedevent.bus.impl.EventConverter.convertRecord(EventConverter.java:116) at org.osgi.util.converter.CustomConverterImpl$ConvertingWrapper.to(CustomConverterImpl.java:169) ... 6 common frames omitted Thanks for the help Thomas
