From 0e94af782f1e6a24607eaa82119b192b56e1f39b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Knobel <philnate@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:36:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] move metric initialisation upfront connection creation to
 avoid potential npe

---
 src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java b/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java
index b3b2263fb..6f9c5441b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java
@@ -279,10 +279,10 @@ public MemcachedConnection(final int bufSize, final ConnectionFactory f,
     wakeupDelay = Integer.parseInt( System.getProperty("net.spy.wakeupDelay",
       Integer.toString(DEFAULT_WAKEUP_DELAY)));
 
+    metrics = f.getMetricCollector();
     List<MemcachedNode> connections = createConnections(a);
     locator = f.createLocator(connections);
 
-    metrics = f.getMetricCollector();
     metricType = f.enableMetrics();
 
     registerMetrics();