Astra CLI: NullPointerException ("keyspaces" is null) on astra db cqlsh

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Running astra db cqlsh start (and even astra db get -o json) against a database whose keyspace list came back null from the DevOps API crashed with: An unexpected error occurred during the execution of the command (NullPointerException): Cannot invoke "java.util.Set.size()" because "keyspaces" is null. The database itself was in a bad state — cqlsh connections and secure-connect-bundle downloads were already broken for it — but the CLI gave an opaque NPE instead of a meaningful message.

2026-09-23 13:33 UTC

@guest

The CLI did not handle a null keyspace set returned by the DevOps API. The maintainer confirmed the bug and shipped a fast-fix in v1.0.2, so upgrade with brew upgrade datastax/astra-cli/astra-cli (or download the latest release). If you still see the NPE after upgrading, the underlying database is likely in a bad state — check it in the Astra Portal or with astra db get, since in the original report the null keyspaces reflected a genuinely broken database, not just a CLI bug. Source: https://github.com/datastax/astra-cli/issues/256

Source: https://github.com/datastax/astra-cli/issues/256

2026-09-23 13:33 UTC