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Zezeng Wang commented on AVRO-2514: ----------------------------------- [~jmudda] I added the field name, which should help guide the modification. Please check the PR and it will reach your expected result. > Making Avro serialization error message more actionable with schema name and > field name > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-2514 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2514 > Project: Apache Avro > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: java > Affects Versions: 1.6.3, 1.9.0, 1.8.2 > Reporter: Jagannathrao Mudda > Priority: Major > Fix For: 1.10.0 > > > In certain scenarios when there is a serialization error, avro serializer > gives following error messages that are not actionable without any schema > name and/field name in it. > * java.lang.Double cannot be cast to java.lang.Long > * Not an enum: null > * ClassCastException > * .. > If there is a filed name of specific schema that is causing these > serialization errors, that helps to fix such issues quickly. > > *Proposed Changes:* > The "writeWithoutConversion" method of "GenericDatumWriter" class can be > updated to handle "ClassCastException" along with "NullPointerException" to > throw an exception with schema name and field name. > The "writeEnum", "writeField", and "error" method can be enhanced to add > field names so that error message can have the field that is causing the > issue. > > -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)