Handling null in checksum validation

Netflix · Aug 4, 2021 · ee6b3e6 · ee6b3e6
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Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/ndbench-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/ndbench/core/util/CheckSumUtil.java b/ndbench-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/ndbench/core/util/CheckSumUtil.java
@@ -82,10 +82,14 @@ public static String appendCheckSumAndEncodeBase64(String inputString, boolean a
      * Base64 decodes the input string, extracts original string bytes and checksum bytes, generates checksum from the
      * extracted string bytes, and validates against the extracted checksum bytes.
      * @param encodedInput
-     * @return true if the checksum is correct, false otherwise
+     * @return true if the checksum is correct or if the encodedInput is null, false otherwise.
      */
     public static boolean isChecksumValid(String encodedInput)
     {
+        // ignore null input
+        if (null == encodedInput)
+            return true;
+
         try
         {
             byte[] inputInBytes = Base64.getDecoder().decode(encodedInput);