Can't interact with KV store from InitiableTask.init()

Attempting to interact with the KeyValueStore from InitiableTask.init() results in a rather obscure exception:

java.util.NoSuchElementException: key not found: TaskName-Partition 3
at scala.collection.MapLike$class.default(MapLike.scala:228) ~[scala-library-2.10.1.jar:na]
at scala.collection.AbstractMap.default(Map.scala:58) ~[scala-library-2.10.1.jar:na]
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.apply(HashMap.scala:64) ~[scala-library-2.10.1.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.system.SystemProducers.send(SystemProducers.scala:71) ~[samza-core_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.task.TaskInstanceCollector.send(TaskInstanceCollector.scala:61) ~[samza-core_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.storage.kv.LoggedStore.putAll(LoggedStore.scala:72) ~[samza-kv_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.storage.kv.SerializedKeyValueStore.putAll(SerializedKeyValueStore.scala:57) ~[samza-kv_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.storage.kv.CachedStore.flush(CachedStore.scala:159) ~[samza-kv_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.storage.kv.CachedStore$$anon$1.removeEldestEntry(CachedStore.scala:69) ~[samza-kv_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at java.util.LinkedHashMap.afterNodeInsertion(LinkedHashMap.java:299) ~[na:1.8.0_25]
at java.util.HashMap.putVal(HashMap.java:663) ~[na:1.8.0_25]
at java.util.HashMap.put(HashMap.java:611) ~[na:1.8.0_25]
at org.apache.samza.storage.kv.CachedStore.get(CachedStore.scala:91) ~[samza-kv_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.storage.kv.NullSafeKeyValueStore.get(NullSafeKeyValueStore.scala:36) ~[samza-kv_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
at org.apache.samza.storage.kv.KeyValueStorageEngine.get(KeyValueStorageEngine.scala:44) ~[samza-kv_2.10-0.8.0.jar:na]
...

After some investigation I see that it's actually not safe to do anything that is going to potentially produce messages from init(), because startTask is called before startProducers in SamzaContainer.run. Interaction with the KV store results in writes to the changelog, resulting in the above exception. Conceptually, it seems like the producers should be initialized first to prevent this, but I have no idea what the side-effects of doing that would be. Minimally, I'd like to see this behavior documented and a more obvious failure such as an IllegalStateException.

Discussion that precipitated this issue:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/samza-dev/201502.mbox/%3c962D3CAB94174A4E9B771B88A9DFE7B10F1E15E2@SJEXMB02.Tivo.com%3e