NPE error when piping queries via stdin to ksql

[mbrancato]

Since there is no current way to run an interactive query against ksql-server when using the --queries-file option, to achieve a ksql-server with a listener and load queries, I was trying to read queries via stdin.

This results in a forever running display of java.lang.NullPointerException.

ksql@ksql:/$ echo "SHOW STREAMS;" | ksql
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/logs’: Permission denied
May 21, 2018 2:06:31 PM org.jline.utils.Log logr
WARNING: Unable to create a system terminal, creating a dumb terminal (enable debug logging for more information)
KSQL, Copyright 2017 Confluent Inc.

CLI v5.0.0-SNAPSHOT, Server v5.0.0-SNAPSHOT located at http://localhost:8088

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ksql> SHOW STREAMS;
 Stream Name | Kafka Topic | Format
------------------------------------
 EVENTS  | events      | JSON
------------------------------------
ksql> java.lang.NullPointerException
ksql> java.lang.NullPointerException
ksql> java.lang.NullPointerException

This is related to #849 as I believe loading via stdin is a workaround to that issue in some cases, including mine.

[Jeronimo-GL]

I found the same issue on 5.0.0-1.

The problem happens regardless of the headless mode. How can I pass a script with queries to define streams for example?.

[rmoff]

@Jeronimo-GL you can use --queries-file if you don't mind headless mode. That works fine in 5.0