@andimarek Just out of curiosity, since I'm the author of that issue -- is this PR supposed to actually initialize that map? Or was that done somewhere else? You mentioned the "code path was not valid", so I assume the latter.

Thanks

@grrttedwards sorry if it was not clear: we have always initiated the map with an empty map, but you were able to set it to null. The new PR makes sure it is never set to null.
With "code path not valid" I mean I was not able to reproduce the exact Exception because we changed things but I got another Exception.
Does this help?

@andimarek Wow, I completely missed the root cause of my issue — that I was actually setting it to null! Duh!

Thanks for the reply. Keep up the good work.