From a57b7697457c6303443790a00ae541468f76d82a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Shook <jshook@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 11:22:58 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] restore buffer auto-sizing, with null guard

---
 .../virtdata/core/templates/StringCompositor.java    | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virtdata-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/core/templates/StringCompositor.java b/virtdata-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/core/templates/StringCompositor.java
index 554727188..a05eaa1c3 100644
--- a/virtdata-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/core/templates/StringCompositor.java
+++ b/virtdata-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/core/templates/StringCompositor.java
@@ -61,11 +61,13 @@ public class StringCompositor implements LongFunction<String> {
         spans[spans.length-1]=even_odd_spans[even_odd_spans.length-1];
         this.stringfunc = stringfunc;
 
-//        int minsize = 0;
-//        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
-//            String result = apply(i);
-//            minsize = Math.max(minsize,result.length());
-//        }
+        int minsize = 0;
+        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+            String result = apply(i);
+            if (result!=null) {
+                minsize = Math.max(minsize,result.length());
+            }
+        }
         bufsize = spans.length*1024;
     }