From 689eb95ffe2746efc44e56f332b7f0d64974414f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Dey <wdey@palantir.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 19:39:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Do not insert null values

---
 .../cassandra/io/sstable/metadata/MetadataSerializer.java       | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/metadata/MetadataSerializer.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/metadata/MetadataSerializer.java
index 6120bafc4b..031df92e50 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/metadata/MetadataSerializer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/metadata/MetadataSerializer.java
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ public Map<MetadataType, MetadataComponent> deserialize(Descriptor descriptor, F
             {
                 in.seek(offset);
                 component = type.serializer.deserialize(descriptor.version, in);
+                components.put(type, component);
             }
-            components.put(type, component);
         }
         return components;
     }