Flink执行报错＜很晦涩＞

org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.ExceptionInChainedOperatorException: Could not forward element to next operator
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.pushToOperator(OperatorChain.java:658)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:616)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:596)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:730)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:708)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.TimestampedCollector.collect(TimestampedCollector.java:53)
	at com.demo.flink.base.transform.EffectiveFlatMapFunc.flatMap(EffectiveFlatMapFunc.java:59)
	at com.demo.flink.base.transform.EffectiveFlatMapFunc.flatMap(EffectiveFlatMapFunc.java:23)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamFlatMap.processElement(StreamFlatMap.java:50)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.pushToOperator(OperatorChain.java:641)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:616)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:596)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:730)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:708)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSourceContexts$NonTimestampContext.collect(StreamSourceContexts.java:104)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSourceContexts$NonTimestampContext.collectWithTimestamp(StreamSourceContexts.java:111)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.AbstractFetcher.emitRecordWithTimestamp(AbstractFetcher.java:398)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Kafka010Fetcher.emitRecord(Kafka010Fetcher.java:91)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Kafka09Fetcher.runFetchLoop(Kafka09Fetcher.java:156)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.run(FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java:718)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.run(StreamSource.java:100)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.run(StreamSource.java:63)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.SourceStreamTask$LegacySourceFunctionThread.run(SourceStreamTask.java:200)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.demo.flink.base.transform.SideFlatMapFunc.flatMap(SideFlatMapFunc.java:64)
	at com.demo.flink.base.transform.SideFlatMapFunc.flatMap(SideFlatMapFunc.java:24)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamFlatMap.processElement(StreamFlatMap.java:50)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.pushToOperator(OperatorChain.java:641)
	... 22 more

最下边给出了明确的报错信息，NullPointerException。但是按照执行逻辑，不应该报错才对。顺着这个思路往上一个算子找。发现从ObjectNode中get到值后，没有进行asText转换，导致与String进行比较时，始终是false。

最开始被最上面的逻辑所迷惑 Could not forward element to next operator，很多文章说“配置的Watermark中的timestamp有问题，需要指定一下你的输入数据中时间的格式，比如是"2018-02-03 21:00:00"，格式应该配置成"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"”，但是我觉得这个可能不是关键问题，因为Flink不会强制你为每条消息绑定watermark。