[Bug]: Transform "Generate random value" Unexpected error. ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException

[qmolla]

Apache Hop version?

2.7.0

Java version?

openjdk version "11.0.18" 2023-01-17 LTS (windows)

Operating system

Windows

What happened?

Transform Generate random value for types Random string, Random integer and Random number gives us an unexpected error.

2024/01/30 14:24:31 - Generate random value.0 - ERROR: Unexpected error
2024/01/30 14:24:31 - Generate random value.0 - ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException
2024/01/30 14:24:31 - Generate random value.0 - at org.apache.hop.pipeline.transforms.randomvalue.RandomValue.getRandomValue(RandomValue.java:67)

Same Error running pipeline on ubuntu server 20.04 ( hop 2.7.0 openjdk version "11.0.21" 2023-10-17)

The same pipeline on hop 2.6 runs wihtout error.

Issue Priority

Priority: 2

Issue Component

Component: Transforms

[nadment]

Indeed, if you use the random generation transformation without input rows, there's a bug. As a workaround
use the transformation with a datagrid as input with one row.