From 008d973f62b11c4e29856e8e007c33361c17ea4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fangfengbin <869218239a@zju.edu.cn>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:01:51 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix java createActor NPE bug (#9532)

---
 .../src/main/java/io/ray/runtime/task/NativeTaskSubmitter.java  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/java/runtime/src/main/java/io/ray/runtime/task/NativeTaskSubmitter.java b/java/runtime/src/main/java/io/ray/runtime/task/NativeTaskSubmitter.java
index eba97f1fb..5443410e5 100644
--- a/java/runtime/src/main/java/io/ray/runtime/task/NativeTaskSubmitter.java
+++ b/java/runtime/src/main/java/io/ray/runtime/task/NativeTaskSubmitter.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public class NativeTaskSubmitter implements TaskSubmitter {
   @Override
   public BaseActorHandle createActor(FunctionDescriptor functionDescriptor, List<FunctionArg> args,
                                      ActorCreationOptions options) throws IllegalArgumentException {
-    if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(options.name)) {
+    if (options != null && StringUtils.isNotBlank(options.name)) {
       Optional<BaseActorHandle> actor =
           options.global ? Ray.getGlobalActor(options.name) : Ray.getActor(options.name);
       Preconditions.checkArgument(!actor.isPresent(),