[CASSANDRA-13868] Safely handle empty buffers when outputting to JSON

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.11, 3.0.15, 3.11.1, 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Severity: Low
• Since Version: 2.2.8
• Assignee: Jason Brown
• Reporter: Jason Brown

Authors

Jason Brown

Reviewers

Sam Tunnicliffe

• Created: 14/Sep/17 17:40
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:03
• Resolved: 15/Sep/17 11:30

Description

As discussed in CASSANDRA-13734, when Selection#rowToJSON encounters an empty ByteBuffer, a BufferUnderflowException can be thrown. At a minimum let's be defensive and not throw an error.