reflected char array returning null package.

[Marko Milicevic]

Hello.  I'm running the following code under the avro 1.2.0 release and
jdk 1.6.0_10.

public interface ISink
{
    public void send( String msg );
} 
 
public class Sink implements ISink
{
        public void send( String msg )
        {
        }
}


public void test()
{
    SocketServer server = 
        new SocketServer(new SpecificResponder(
            ISink.class, new Sink()), new InetSocketAddress(3333));

    SocketTransceiver client =
        new SocketTransceiver(new InetSocketAddress(server.getPort()));
        
    ISink proxy = (ISink)SpecificRequestor.getClient(ISink.class,
client);

    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )
    {
        proxy.send("testing");
    }

    client.close();
    server.close();
}


First I was getting errors until I learned of paranamer.
I thought I read in the doc, that no pre-processing would be necessary?

I'm fine with having to run paranamer, but want to be sure that it is
required?


Now after processing with paranamer I get the following error trying to
run...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:259)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createFieldSchema(ReflectData.java:3
03)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:291)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createFieldSchema(ReflectData.java:3
03)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:291)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.getMessage(ReflectData.java:339)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.getProtocol(ReflectData.java:318)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectResponder.<init>(ReflectResponder.java:45
)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectResponder.<init>(ReflectResponder.java:41
)

//
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:259)
  } else if (type instanceof Class) {
      Class c = (Class)type;
      String name = c.getSimpleName();
>>      String space = c.getPackage().getName();
      if (c.getEnclosingClass() != null)          // nested class
        space = c.getEnclosingClass().getName() + "$";
      String fullName = c.getName();
      Schema schema = names.get(fullName);
      if (schema == null) {

Stepping though the debugger, the type appears to be "class [C", with
the name "value".  I assume that is the "value" char[] in the String
msg.

Should a Class of type "class [C", return a package of null?

If so, any idea what I'm doing incorrectly?

Thank you.

Marko.
.