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Doug Cutting resolved AVRO-780.
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Resolution: Fixed
I committed this.
> union handling in ReflectDatumWriter
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>
> Key: AVRO-780
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-780
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Environment: Mac with VMWare running Linux training-vm
> 2.6.28-19-server #61-Ubuntu
> Reporter: ey-chih chow
> Assignee: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 1.5.1
>
> Attachments: AVRO-780.patch, AVRO-780.patch, AVRO-780.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 72h
> Remaining Estimate: 72h
>
> Our avdl schema definition for the record DeviceRow has a field:
> union {array<DynamicColumn4Games>, null} Games__;
> When we migrated our MR jobs from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0, we got following messages:
> ===================================================================================================
> 11/03/10 11:31:02 INFO mapred.TaskInProgress: Error from
> attempt_20110310113041953_0001_m_000000_0: java.lang.NullPointerException: in
> com.ngmoco.hbase.DeviceRow in union null of union in field Games__ of
> com.ngmoco.hbase.DeviceRow
> at
> org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectDatumWriter.write(ReflectDatumWriter.java:104)
> at
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:57)
> at
> org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroSerialization$AvroWrapperSerializer.serialize(AvroSerialization.java:131)
> at
> org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroSerialization$AvroWrapperSerializer.serialize(AvroSerialization.java:114)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.collect(MapTask.java:900)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$OldOutputCollector.collect(MapTask.java:466)
> at
> org.apache.avro.mapred.HadoopMapper$MapCollector.collect(HadoopMapper.java:69)
> at
> com.ngmoco.ngpipes.sourcing.NgActivityGatheringMapper.map(NgActivityGatheringMapper.java:91)
> at
> com.ngmoco.ngpipes.sourcing.NgActivityGatheringMapper.map(NgActivityGatheringMapper.java:1)
> at org.apache.avro.mapred.HadoopMapper.map(HadoopMapper.java:80)
> at org.apache.avro.mapred.HadoopMapper.map(HadoopMapper.java:34)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:50)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:358)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:307)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: in union null of union in field
> Games__ of com.ngmoco.hbase.DeviceRow
> at
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.npe(GenericDatumWriter.java:92)
> at
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:86)
> at
> org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectDatumWriter.write(ReflectDatumWriter.java:102)
> ... 14 more
> ===================================================================================================
> After we change definition of the field Games__ to:
> union {null, array<DynamicColumn4Games>} Games__;
> The system stop complaining.
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