NullPointerException in McpClientSession

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#605 opened on Oct 7, 2025 4 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: java
Domain: api

Research direction

Start at mcp-core/src/main/java/io/modelcontextprotocol/spec/McpClientSession.java line 280 and review the sendRequest flow around the reported FluxHandle NPE. Use the failure described in enola-dev/enola#1862 and the 0.14.1 environment as context; done means the failure no longer produces an uninformative NPE and instead reports a clear error.

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Bug description

In https://github.com/enola-dev/enola/issues/1862, I've run into:

java.lang.NullPointerException: data
	at java.base/java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(Objects.java:259)
	at reactor.core.publisher.FluxHandle$HandleSubscriber.next(FluxHandle.java:251)
	at io.modelcontextprotocol.spec.McpClientSession.lambda$sendRequest$12(McpClientSession.java:280)
	at reactor.core.publisher.FluxHandle$HandleSubscriber.onNext(FluxHandle.java:113)
	at reactor.core.publisher.SerializedSubscriber.onNext(SerializedSubscriber.java:99)
	at reactor.core.publisher.FluxTimeout$TimeoutMainSubscriber.onNext(FluxTimeout.java:181)
	at reactor.core.publisher.MonoCreate$DefaultMonoSink.success(MonoCreate.java:176)

I guess that this means that this is null?

Environment

0.14.1

Steps to reproduce

Unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce it locally even myself, but I am consistently seeing this on a failing CI build.

Expected behavior

Clear error message instead of NPE.

Minimal Complete Reproducible example

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