[HBASE-5759] HBaseClient throws NullPointerException when EOFException should be used.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
• Reporter: Jimmy Xiang
• Created: 10/Apr/12 16:47
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 18:45
• Resolved: 10/Apr/12 18:15

Description

When a RPC data input stream is closed, protobuf doesn't raise an EOFException, it returns a null RpcResponse object.

We need to check if the response is null before trying to access it.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HBASE-5725 HBaseClient throws NPE while in Connection#receiveResponse call.