Issues

• My PR addresses the following Helix issues and references them in the PR description:

#2973

Description

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NPE can occur during IntermedaiteStateCalcStage
Details can be found in the issue page #2973

Tests

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testMessageAlreadyApplied in TestIntermediateStateCalcStage
Without the null check in in IntermediateStateCalcStage, this will produce an identical NPE

• The following is the result of the "mvn test" command on the appropriate module:

$ mvn test -o -Dtest=TestIntermediateStateCalcStage -pl=helix-core

[INFO] Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 14.973 s - in org.apache.helix.controller.stages.TestIntermediateStateCalcStage
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  53.225 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2024-11-27T11:03:45-08:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Commits

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  3. Subject does not end with a period
  4. Subject uses the imperative mood ("add", not "adding")
  5. Body wraps at 72 characters
  6. Body explains "what" and "why", not "how"

Code Quality

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