From 406259d5b84844c5870bcfab84763cfe92d54fc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cody koeninger <cody@koeninger.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:03:52 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [SPARK-9780][Streaming][Kafka] prevent NPE if KafkaRDD
 instantiation fails

---
 .../scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala   | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/external/kafka/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala b/external/kafka/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala
index 1a9d78c0d4f59..ea5f842c6cafe 100644
--- a/external/kafka/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala
+++ b/external/kafka/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala
@@ -197,7 +197,11 @@ class KafkaRDD[
         .dropWhile(_.offset < requestOffset)
     }
 
-    override def close(): Unit = consumer.close()
+    override def close(): Unit = {
+      if (consumer != null) {
+        consumer.close()
+      }
+    }
 
     override def getNext(): R = {
       if (iter == null || !iter.hasNext) {