[NO ISSUE][OTH] Ensure HttpServer Channel is Initialized

- user model changes: no
- storage format changes: no
- interface changes: no

Details:
- Ensure the HttpServer channel is initialized when stopping
  the server to avoid NPE.

Change-Id: I5b7403e80f6118f99be46d166c6cfbee8d4305ac
Reviewed-on: https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/3389
Contrib: Jenkins <jenkins@fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu>
Tested-by: Jenkins <jenkins@fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu>
Integration-Tests: Jenkins <jenkins@fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Lychagin <dmitry.lychagin@couchbase.com>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServer.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServer.java
index 152f6c7..d9902da 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServer.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServer.java
@@ -333,8 +333,10 @@
         } catch (Exception e) {
             LOGGER.log(Level.ERROR, "Error while shutting down http server executor", e);
         }
-        channel.close();
-        channel.closeFuture().sync();
+        if (channel != null) {
+            channel.close();
+            channel.closeFuture().sync();
+        }
     }
 
     public IServlet getServlet(FullHttpRequest request) {