NullPointerException while bulk insert via alias on deleted index

[avkhozov]

user@host:~$ curl -i 'http://localhost:9200'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 336

{
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "Red Nine",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "1.4.2",
    "build_hash" : "927caff6f05403e936c20bf4529f144f0c89fd8c",
    "build_timestamp" : "2014-12-16T14:11:12Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "4.10.2"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
user@host:~$ curl -i -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/t_index?pretty=1'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 28

{
  "acknowledged" : true
}
user@host:~$ curl -i -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/t_index/_alias/t_alias?pretty=1'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 28

{
  "acknowledged" : true
}
user@host:~$ curl -i -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/t_index/_close?pretty=1'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 28

{
  "acknowledged" : true
}
user@host:~$ curl -i -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_bulk?pretty=1' -d '
> {"index":{"_type":"test","_index":"t_alias"}}
> {"a":5}
> '
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 63

{
  "error" : "NullPointerException[null]",
  "status" : 500
}
user@host:~$

[clintongormley]

Hi @avkhozov

Thanks for reporting. This has already been fixed in #9057