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_cat/plugins threw NullPointerException #45321

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Elasticsearch version : 6.7.0

Plugins installed: [
{"analysis-icu","version":"6.7.0"},
{"analysis-ik","version":"6.7.0-rc1"},
{"analysis-kuromoji","version":"6.7.0"},
{"analysis-phonetic","version":"6.7.0"},
{"analysis-pinyin","version":"6.7.0"},
{"analysis-smartcn","version":"6.7.0"},
{"elasticsearch-repository-oss","version":"6.7.0"},
{"ingest-attachment","version":"6.7.0"},
{"mapper-murmur3","version":"6.7.0"},
{"mapper-size","version":"6.7.0"},
{"repository-hdfs","version":"6.7.0"}]

JVM version : OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (11.0.3-AJDK+26-Alibaba)

OS version : Linux 3.10.0-327.ali2010.rc6.alios7.x86_64 # x86_64 GNU/Linux

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
Sometimes there is NullPointerException error when _cat/plugins was executed and according to class org/elasticsearch/rest/action/cat/RestPluginsAction.java, this may happen when ClusterStateResponse state or NodesInfoResponse nodesInfo can't be retrieved.

Looking at the code it seems that a node present in the ClusterStateResponse can be missing in the NodesInfoResponse since they are retrieved in order (first the cluster state then the nodes infos). It's not really clear to me why we need to retrieve the cluster state since we have all the infos that we need in the NodesInfoResponse response. I guess we could remove the cluster state entirely or protect against missing nodes in the nodes info response in order to avoid the NPE.

But it's expected to be handled more properly instead of throwing NullPointerException.

Provide logs (if relevant):

[2019-07-17T18:04:38,301][WARN ][r.suppressed             ] [nodeName] path: /_cat/plugins, params: {format=json}
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at org.elasticsearch.rest.action.cat.RestPluginsAction.buildTable(RestPluginsAction.java:99) ~[elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.rest.action.cat.RestPluginsAction.access$000(RestPluginsAction.java:41) ~[elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.rest.action.cat.RestPluginsAction$1$1.buildResponse(RestPluginsAction.java:72) ~[elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.rest.action.cat.RestPluginsAction$1$1.buildResponse(RestPluginsAction.java:69) ~[elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.rest.action.RestResponseListener.processResponse(RestResponseListener.java:37) ~[elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.rest.action.RestActionListener.onResponse(RestActionListener.java:47) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$1.onResponse(TransportAction.java:85) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$1.onResponse(TransportAction.java:81) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.ContextPreservingActionListener.onResponse(ContextPreservingActionListener.java:43) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction$AsyncAction.finishHim(TransportNodesAction.java:251) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction$AsyncAction.onOperation(TransportNodesAction.java:228) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction$AsyncAction.access$100(TransportNodesAction.java:151) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction$AsyncAction$1.handleResponse(TransportNodesAction.java:205) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction$AsyncAction$1.handleResponse(TransportNodesAction.java:195) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$ContextRestoreResponseHandler.handleResponse(TransportService.java:1098) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport$1.doRun(TcpTransport.java:985) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsExecutors$DirectExecutorService.execute(EsExecutors.java:192) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.handleResponse(TcpTransport.java:977) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.messageReceived(TcpTransport.java:952) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.inboundMessage(TcpTransport.java:763) [elasticsearch-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty4.Netty4MessageChannelHandler.channelRead(Netty4MessageChannelHandler.java:53) [transport-netty4-client-6.7.0.jar:6.7.0]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:362) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:348) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:340) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.fireChannelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:323) [netty-codec-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:297) [netty-codec-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:362) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:348) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:340) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.logging.LoggingHandler.channelRead(LoggingHandler.java:241) [netty-handler-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:362) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:348) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:340) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1436) [netty-handler-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1203) [netty-handler-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1247) [netty-handler-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:502) [netty-codec-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:441) [netty-codec-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:278) [netty-codec-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:362) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:348) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:340) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1434) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:362) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:348) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:965) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:163) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:656) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysPlain(NioEventLoop.java:556) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:510) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:470) [netty-transport-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$5.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:909) [netty-common-4.1.32.Final.jar:4.1.32.Final]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) [?:?]

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