From e8e438d1c969dc3d1a5b07ed904c572eda0c48bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lauri Tulmin <ltulmin@splunk.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:09:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing @Nullable to fix the build

---
 .../spring/kafka/v2_7/InstrumentedRecordInterceptor.java        | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/kafka/v2_7/InstrumentedRecordInterceptor.java b/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/kafka/v2_7/InstrumentedRecordInterceptor.java
index a0b7ad22f182..d941dfc89f70 100644
--- a/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/kafka/v2_7/InstrumentedRecordInterceptor.java
+++ b/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/kafka/v2_7/InstrumentedRecordInterceptor.java
@@ -138,6 +138,6 @@ public void clearThreadState(Consumer<?, ?> consumer) {
 
   private static class ThreadState {
     // used to record the error in failure() so it could be used in afterRecord()
-    Throwable error;
+    @Nullable Throwable error;
   }
 }