HttpResponse.getEntity(Class<T> type) Throws NullPointerException When Response Has no Body

[PaulSzyller]

HttpResponse response = httpClient.post(...)

// response had empty body, entity is null
assert response.getEntity() == null

// this will throw a NullPointerException
String entityString = response.getEntity(String.class)

And the stacktrace:

java.lang.NullPointerException: null
        at com.budjb.httprequests.converter.EntityConverterManager.read(EntityConverterManager.java:175)
        at com.budjb.httprequests.HttpResponse.getEntity(HttpResponse.java:162)
        at com.budjb.httprequests.HttpResponse$getEntity.call(Unknown Source)
        ...