Zsolt Donca created FLINK-9654:
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Summary: Internal error while deserializing custom Scala
TypeSerializer instances
Key: FLINK-9654
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9654
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Zsolt Donca
When you are using custom `TypeSerializer` instances implemented in Scala, the
Scala issue [SI-2034|https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-2034] can manifest
itself when a Flink job is restored from checkpoint or started with a savepoint.
The reason is that in such a restore from checkpoint or savepoint, Flink uses
`InstantiationUtil.FailureTolerantObjectInputStream` to deserialize the type
serializers and their configurations. The deserialization walks through the
entire object graph corresponding, and for each class it calls
`isAnonymousClass`, which, in turn, calls `getSimpleName` (mechanism in place
for FLINK-6869). If there is an internal class defined in a Scala object for
which `getSimpleName` fails (see the Scala issue), then a
`java.lang.InternalError` is thrown which causes the task manager to restart.
In this case, Flink tries to restart the job on another task manager, causing
all the task managers to restart, wreaking havoc on the entire Flink cluster.
There are some alternative type information derivation mechanisms that rely on
anonymous classes and, most importantly, classes generated by macros, that can
easily trigger the above problem. I am personally working on
[flink-alt|[https://github.com/zsolt-donca/flink-alt]|https://github.com/zsolt-donca/flink-alt],],
and there is also
[flink-shapeless|[https://github.com/joroKr21/flink-shapeless].]
I prepared a pull request that fixes the issue.
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