Hi Folks, Whilst in the muddle of upgrading Nutch 2.3-SNAPSHOT to use Gora 0.5 we've run into a problem when implementing the gora-mongodb stuff. The issue is described within the Jira issue [0]. This being said, Kiril (CC'd) has stated quite clearly why this is happening. This is a consequence of the following lines of the Nutch code base
https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/2.x/src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/FetcherJob.java#L218 https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/2.x/src/java/org/apache/nutch/parse/ParserJob.java#L274 https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/2.x/src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/DbUpdaterJob.java#L128 and results in the following stack trace java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't serialize class org.apache.avro.util.Utf8 at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder._putObjectField(BasicBSONEncoder.java:284) at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder.putObject(BasicBSONEncoder.java:185) at org.bson.BasicBSONEncoder.putObject(BasicBSONEncoder.java:131) at com.mongodb.DefaultDBEncoder.writeObject(DefaultDBEncoder.java:33) at com.mongodb.OutMessage.putObject(OutMessage.java:289) at com.mongodb.OutMessage.writeQuery(OutMessage.java:211) at com.mongodb.OutMessage.query(OutMessage.java:86) at com.mongodb.DBCollectionImpl.find(DBCollectionImpl.java:81) at com.mongodb.DBCollectionImpl.find(DBCollectionImpl.java:66) at com.mongodb.DBCursor._check(DBCursor.java:458) at com.mongodb.DBCursor._hasNext(DBCursor.java:546) at com.mongodb.DBCursor.hasNext(DBCursor.java:571) at org.apache.gora.mongodb.query.MongoDBResult.nextInner(MongoDBResult.java:69) at org.apache.gora.query.impl.ResultBase.next(ResultBase.java:114) at org.apache.gora.mapreduce.GoraRecordReader.nextKeyValue(GoraRecordReader.java:119) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$NewTrackingRecordReader.nextKeyValue(MapTask.java:531) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.MapContext.nextKeyValue(MapContext.java:67) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:144) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:764) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:364) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job$MapTaskRunnable.run(LocalJobRunner.java:223) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) The cause is the following line (example from FetcherJob): filter.getOperands().add(new Utf8(batchId)); During serialization MongoDB doesn't know about Utf8 type. My question is now... should we remove the Utf8 from Nutch, or should gora-mongodb handle this silently? Thanks for reading. Lewis [0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1843 -- *Lewis*
