From 2953e0dcc56b3de69b4f8b6de4429745081441a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian <6939810+chkr1011@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 12:41:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve payload to string conversion

---
 Source/MQTTnet/MqttApplicationMessageExtensions.cs | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Source/MQTTnet/MqttApplicationMessageExtensions.cs b/Source/MQTTnet/MqttApplicationMessageExtensions.cs
index fd59a667..bf3e7154 100644
--- a/Source/MQTTnet/MqttApplicationMessageExtensions.cs
+++ b/Source/MQTTnet/MqttApplicationMessageExtensions.cs
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ namespace MQTTnet
                 return null;
             }
 
+            if (applicationMessage.PayloadSegment.Array == null)
+            {
+                return null;
+            }
+
             var payloadSegment = applicationMessage.PayloadSegment;
             return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(payloadSegment.Array, payloadSegment.Offset, payloadSegment.Count);
         }