[jira] [Created] (FLUME-2620) File channel throws NullPointerException if a header value is null

["Santiago M. Mola (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Santiago M. Mola created FLUME-2620:
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             Summary: File channel throws NullPointerException if a header value is null
                 Key: FLUME-2620
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2620
             Project: Flume
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: File Channel
            Reporter: Santiago M. Mola


File channel throws NullPointerException if a header value is null.
If this is intended, it should be reported correctly in the logs.

Sample trace:

org.apache.flume.ChannelException: Unable to put batch on required channel: FileChannel chan { dataDirs: [/var/lib/ingestion-csv/chan/data] }
	at org.apache.flume.channel.ChannelProcessor.processEventBatch(ChannelProcessor.java:200)
	at org.apache.flume.source.SpoolDirectorySource$SpoolDirectoryRunnable.run(SpoolDirectorySource.java:236)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.flume.channel.file.proto.ProtosFactory$FlumeEventHeader$Builder.setValue(ProtosFactory.java:7415)
	at org.apache.flume.channel.file.Put.writeProtos(Put.java:85)
	at org.apache.flume.channel.file.TransactionEventRecord.toByteBuffer(TransactionEventRecord.java:174)
	at org.apache.flume.channel.file.Log.put(Log.java:622)
	at org.apache.flume.channel.file.FileChannel$FileBackedTransaction.doPut(FileChannel.java:469)
	at org.apache.flume.channel.BasicTransactionSemantics.put(BasicTransactionSemantics.java:93)
	at org.apache.flume.channel.BasicChannelSemantics.put(BasicChannelSemantics.java:80)
	at org.apache.flume.channel.ChannelProcessor.processEventBatch(ChannelProcessor.java:189)




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