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NameNode #47

Closed patricknee closed 7 years ago

patricknee commented 7 years ago

When processing the following 1995 files:

pftaps19951017_wk42.zip pftaps19950214_wk07.zip

In NameNode.read called from AssigneeName the variable fullName comes up NULL and TransformerCli crashes.

The current code: 

String fullName = nameN != null ? nameN.getText() : null;

List<String> nameParts = Splitter.onPattern("[,;]").limit(2).trimResults().splitToList(fullName);

Appears to expect fullName to be null at times, but the com.google.common code called in Splitter.splitToList does not seem to like it. (Is there a version of splitToList that accepts nulls?)

Current workaround I am using is:

if (fullName == null) return null;

bgfeldm commented 7 years ago

Your right, and I like your fix.

Thanks again,

Brian