PlayerDeathEvent Bug

Hello, I have noticed a bug with PlayerDeathEvent, and was wondering if someone could help me in solving this issue. Either I am doing something wrong, or it is a bug; I don't know which. Well, here it goes. Whenever I call the player that died and the killer in a scenario such as this:

Code:

    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerDeath(PlayerDeathEvent e) {
        Player dead = e.getEntity();
        Player killer = e.getEntity().getKiller();
            if (!p.requests.isEmpty()) {
                if (p.requests.get(dead.getName()) != null || p.requests.get(killer.getName()) != null) {
                    p.requests.clear();
                    p.inProgress = false;
            }
        }
    }

A simple line like this:

Code:

killer.sendMessage("debug");

Will cause an NPE. Does anyone know why, and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance and I appreciate any help!

 

Compressions
You need to check if the cause of the player's death is actually by another player. Right now, you're sending a message to the killer (which could be any entity and not just a player) without adding a safety check so of course it will throw a NPE if the player died by a mob or anything that cannot receive the message.

Code:

if (killer != null)
{
  //do a barrel roll
}

 

r0306 I have used this check and the same error persists.