rangareddy commented on issue #17281:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/issues/17281#issuecomment-5365812431

   This issue was reviewed as part of the JIRA-migrated backlog triage 
(HUDI-8299).
   
   **Findings: needs a reproduction against a current build before it can be 
dispositioned.**
   
   The report is concrete and actionable as written: HoodieAvroParquetReader 
returns null for a list-typed field when reading a parquet file produced by a 
replacecommit (clustering), causing an NPE during global-index tagging via 
HoodieMergedReadHandle.
   
   I have deliberately not called this one from the source. The surrounding 
code has been substantially rewritten since it was filed - table versions 8 and 
9, the `BufferedRecordMerger` family replacing payload-based merging, the 
file-group-reader migration, and the `hudi-common` package reorganisations in 
#19193 / #19195. With that much churn, inferring either "still broken" or 
"silently fixed" would be a guess rather than a finding, and both errors are 
costly here.
   
   The good news is that reproducing it is cheap: the description carries a 
full stack trace through HoodieRecordUtils.loadPayload and 
SpillableMapUtils.convertToHoodieRecordPayload, and identifies the divergence 
as a parquet reader config difference on list types.
   
   There is also no commit anywhere in the tree referencing HUDI-8299, so if 
this was fixed it was incidental to another change rather than deliberate - 
which is another reason to verify rather than assume.
   
   Keeping this open.
   


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