[jira] [Assigned] (KAFKA-5456) Producer fails with NPE if record is larger than batch size

["Apurva Mehta (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5456?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Apurva Mehta reassigned KAFKA-5456:
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    Assignee: Apurva Mehta

> Producer fails with NPE if record is larger than batch size
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-5456
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5456
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: producer 
>    Affects Versions: 0.11.0.0, 0.10.2.1
>            Reporter: Matthias J. Sax
>            Assignee: Apurva Mehta
>
> If a record exceed the producer's configure batch size on {{send()}}, producer fails with a NPE
> From mailing list:
> {quote}
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils.notNull(Utils.java:243)
> at
> org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.RecordAccumulator.append(RecordAccumulator.java:219)
> at
> org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.doSend(KafkaProducer.java:650)
> at
> org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.send(KafkaProducer.java:604)
> at
> org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.RecordCollectorImpl.send(RecordCollectorImpl.java:97)
> at
> org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.StoreChangeLogger.logChange(StoreChangeLogger.java:59)
> at
> ...
> {quote}
> The NPE is not very helpful and we should have a proper exception type and meaningful exception message that points the user to the config they need to change to fix the problem. We also need to add a test for this.



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