[NIFI-7702] Nifi web api crashes due to empty payload causing NullPointerException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.11.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0
• Component/s: Flow Versioning
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Karthikeyan Singaravelan
• Created: 04/Aug/20 05:14
• Updated: 04/Aug/20 18:12
• Resolved: 04/Aug/20 16:49

Description

This is similar to below tickets where empty payload causes the server to crash. The fix would be to ensure the request object is validated to be null. I am assigning it to Jeyassri Balchandran who would like to make a first contribution to Nifi.

 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7691
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7682
 

curl -X PUT http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/controller-services/123/references
ControllerServiceResource.java:467

curl -X PUT http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/versions/active-requests/123
VersionsResource.java:287

curl -X PUT http://localhost:8000/nifi-api/versions/process-groups/123
VersionsResource.java:790 

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4447