[jira] [Updated] (HTTPCLIENT-1274) NullPointerException on 304 Not Modified response

["Francois-Xavier Bonnet (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1274?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Francois-Xavier Bonnet updated HTTPCLIENT-1274:
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    Attachment: TestCachingExec.patch.txt

Here is a unit test that reproduces the problem.
                
> NullPointerException on 304 Not Modified response
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>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1274
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1274
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Cache
>    Affects Versions: Snapshot
>            Reporter: Francois-Xavier Bonnet
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: TestCachingExec.patch.txt
>
>
> When sending a conditional request (If-None-Match for example) and the backend responds with a 304 Not Modified, the response contains an HttpEntity but you get a NullPointerException whenever to try to call one of the methods :
> - org.apache.http.HttpEntity.getContent()
> - org.apache.http.HttpEntity.writeTo(OutputStream)
> I would expect getEntity() to return null if there is no entity in the response.
> As a workaround I can test on the contentLength before calling these methods and call EntityUtils.consume(entity) to get sure that the connection is released but this makes things more complicated.

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