TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null

[Valid]

TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null at Client.handlePublishedMessage_ (/home/phazm/.node_libraries/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:423:42) at Client.onReply_ (/home/phazm/.node_libraries/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:390:14) at /home/phazm/.node_libraries/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:136:34 at ReplyParser.feed (/home/phazm/.node_libraries/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:198:25) at Stream. (/home/phazm/.node_libraries/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:337:28) at Stream.emit (events:25:26) at IOWatcher.callback (net:369:16) at node.js:204:9

Using the latest from HEAD for redis, node, and redis-node-client

I'm not actually doing anything with pubsub, so I think there's an errant call somewhere, when it's running the code when it doesn't need to.

[Sembiance]

I'm getting this too.

Here is how you reproduce it:

redis.hmget("AntKey", "any0", "any1", "any2", "any3", function() {} );

That will produce this exception:

                      reply.value[0].value.length == 8 &&
                                          ^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null
    at Client.handlePublishedMessage_ (/mnt/compendium/DevLab/lib/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:427:43)
    at Client.onReply_ (/mnt/compendium/DevLab/lib/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:390:14)
    at /mnt/compendium/DevLab/lib/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:136:34
    at ReplyParser.feed (/mnt/compendium/DevLab/lib/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:183:29)
    at Stream. (/mnt/compendium/DevLab//lib/redis-node-client/lib/redis-client.js:337:28)
    at Stream.emit (events:25:26)
    at IOWatcher.callback (net:510:16)
    at node.js:228:9

You get a slightly different error if you reduce the number of keys requested down to 3.

If you reduce it to two, it doesn't throw any exceptions.

[Sembiance]

I made a patch, you can find it here: http://www.telparia.com/redis-client.js.patch

Seems to work, but I don't have enough understanding of the code to know whether or not this causes more issues.

[MiketoString]

Seeing the same issue, patched seemed to fix it for me as well. Getting error on a "smembers" call.

[lacker]

It looks like this happens when you do a hmget on a key that doesn't exist yet.