autoResart crash

[guyyakir]

Hey, after upgrading my strimzi from version 0.25.0 to version 0.33.0, I'm trying to use the autoRestart feature but after restarting a connector for the first time, my strimzi operator crash due to null pointer exception.

2023-02-05 13:56:25 INFO AbstractConnectOperator:696 - Reconciliation #1(watch) KafkaConnect(kafka/connect-cluster): Restarted connector inventory-connector
2023-02-05 13:56:25 ERROR ContextBase: - Unhandled exception
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject.(JsonObject.java:71) ~[io.vertx.vertx-core-4.3.6.jar:4.3.6]
at io.strimzi.operator.cluster.operator.assembly.AbstractConnectOperator.maybeUpdateConnectorStatus(AbstractConnectOperator.java:955) ~[io.strimzi.cluster-operator-0.33.0.jar:0.33.0]
at io.strimzi.operator.cluster.operator.assembly.AbstractConnectOperator.lambda$reconcileConnectorAndHandleResult$16(AbstractConnectOperator.java:471) ~[io.strimzi.cluster-operator-0.33.0.jar:0.33.0

don't know if its related or not, but i don't see the autoRestart status in my kafkaconnector, only in the spec.
Any idea what i might be doing wrong ?

[scholzj]

Can you please share:

• You KafkaConnect and KafkaConnector resources
• Full log of the cluster operator

That will allow us to analyze the issue and reproduce / fix it if needed.

[guyyakir]

attached the log and configuration for kafak connect and connector.

strimzi-crash.log
strimzi-crash-kctr.txt
strimzi-crash-kc.txt

[scholzj]

Looks like the connector returned null after the restart. But I do not seem to be able to reproduce it with any of my connectors. So it might be related to your connector and your environment somehow. In any case, you should probably open an issue and attach the files there as that will be some kind of bug somewhere.

[guyyakir]

thanks i opened an issue #8046