Getting NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.giffing.bucket4j.spring.boot.starter.context.properties.Bucket4JBootProperties.getMethods()" because "bucket4jProperties" is null

[ShriramDeshkar]

getting null pointer exception from 0.12.3 onwards...

NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.giffing.bucket4j.spring.boot.starter.context.properties.Bucket4JBootProperties.getMethods()" because "bucket4jProperties" is null
Stack: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to initialize
at org.springframework.cloud.function.adapter.azure.AzureFunctionInstanceInjector.getInstance(AzureFunctionInstanceInjector.java:80)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.binding.ExecutionContextDataSource.getFunctionInstance(ExecutionContextDataSource.java:103)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.broker.JavaMethodInvokeInfo.invoke(JavaMethodInvokeInfo.java:20)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.broker.EnhancedJavaMethodExecutorImpl.execute(EnhancedJavaMethodExecutorImpl.java:22)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.chain.FunctionExecutionMiddleware.invoke(FunctionExecutionMiddleware.java:19)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.chain.InvocationChain.doNext(InvocationChain.java:21)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.broker.JavaFunctionBroker.invokeMethod(JavaFunctionBroker.java:125)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.handler.InvocationRequestHandler.execute(InvocationRequestHandler.java:34)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.handler.InvocationRequestHandler.execute(InvocationRequestHandler.java:10)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.handler.MessageHandler.handle(MessageHandler.java:44)
at com.microsoft.azure.functions.worker.JavaWorkerClient$StreamingMessagePeer.lambda$onNext$0(JavaWorkerClient.java:94)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Failed to process import candidates for configuration class [com.giffing.bucket4j.spring.boot.starter.config.cache.Bucket4jCacheConfiguration]: Error processing condition on com.giffing.bucket4j.spring.boot.starter.config.cache.jcache.JCacheBucket4jConfiguration
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:544)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.doProcessConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:321)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:246)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:534)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser$DeferredImportSelectorGroupingHandler.lambda$processGroupImports$1(ConfigurationClassParser.java:746)
at java.base/java.lang.Iterable.forEach(Iterable.java:75)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser$DeferredImportSelectorGroupingHandler.processGroupImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:743)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser$DeferredImportSelectorHandler.process(ConfigurationClassParser.java:714)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.parse(ConfigurationClassParser.java:183)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.processConfigBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:417)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanDefinitionRegistry(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:290)
at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:349)
at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:118)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:789)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:607)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:754)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:456)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:335)
at org.springframework.cloud.function.adapter.azure.AzureFunctionInstanceInjector.initialize(AzureFunctionInstanceInjector.java:92)
at org.springframework.cloud.function.adapter.azure.AzureFunctionInstanceInjector.getInstance(AzureFunctionInstanceInjector.java:66)
... 15 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error processing condition on com.giffing.bucket4j.spring.boot.starter.config.cache.jcache.JCacheBucket4jConfiguration
at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.SpringBootCondition.matches(SpringBootCondition.java:60)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConditionEvaluator.shouldSkip(ConditionEvaluator.java:108)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:220)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:534)
... 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.giffing.bucket4j.spring.boot.starter.context.properties.Bucket4JBootProperties.getMethods()" because "bucket4jProperties" is null
at com.giffing.bucket4j.spring.boot.starter.config.condition.OnSynchronousPropertyCondition.getMatchOutcome(OnSynchronousPropertyCondition.java:15)
at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.SpringBootCondition.matches(SpringBootCondition.java:47)

[MarcGiffing]

Does the problem still exists in version 0.12.7? Can you provide a simple example to reproduce the problem?