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Andrius Druzinis-Vitkus commented on AVRO-607:
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Hi [~busbey], thanks for that. I've just attempted to submit a patch. Added a
brief release note but was surprised there wasn't a field for the actual patch!
Apologies in advance for being a bit lost...
> SpecificData.getSchema not thread-safe
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> Key: AVRO-607
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-607
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.3.3, 1.8.1
> Reporter: Stephen Tu
> Assignee: Andrius Druzinis-Vitkus
> Priority: Blocker
> Labels: newbie, patch
> Fix For: 1.8.2
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> Attachments: AVRO-607.patch
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> SpecificData.getSchema uses a WeakHashMap to cache schemas, but WeakHashMap
> is not thread-safe, and the method itself is not synchronized. Seems like
> this could lead to the data structure getting corrupted.
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