[CXF-8565] Unable to use transport-http-petty-client with JAX-RS due to NPE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0, 3.4.5, 3.3.13
• Component/s: Transports
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Freeman Yue Fang
• Reporter: Timothy James Ward
• Created: 21/Jul/21 12:50
• Updated: 22/Dec/21 20:41
• Resolved: 21/Jul/21 15:30

Description

When attempting to use the Netty transport in a JAX-RS client I encountered a NullPointerException from the CXF internals. This seems to be because CXF is trying to set a Content-Type for a GET request which has no body. As a result CXF passes null as the header value, which is not valid in the Netty Request.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #828