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Alparslan Avcı commented on GORA-401:
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Hi [~renato2099],
I think, there is a misunderstanding. Of course, as you stated, we should not
serialize the dirty bits to the backend data stores. As [~alfonso.nishikawa]
said, the desired feature is pass dirty bits from Map to Reduce and this is not
possible right now.
> Serialization and deserialization of Persistent does not hold the entity
> dirty state
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>
> Key: GORA-401
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-401
> Project: Apache Gora
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: gora-core
> Affects Versions: 0.4, 0.5
> Environment: Tested on gora-0.4, but seems logically to hold on
> gora-0.5. HBase backend.
> Reporter: Alfonso Nishikawa
> Assignee: Alfonso Nishikawa
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: serialization
> Attachments: GORA-401-tests.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 35h
> Time Spent: 6.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 28.5h
>
> After removing __g__dirty field in GORA-326, dirty field is not serialized.
> In GORA-321
> {{[PersistentSerializer|https://github.com/apache/gora/blob/master/gora-core/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/mapreduce/PersistentSerializer.java]}}
> went from using
> {{[PersistentDatumWriter|https://github.com/apache/gora/blob/apache-gora-0.3/gora-core/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/avro/PersistentDatumWriter.java](/Reader)}}
> to Avro's {{SpecificDatumWriter}}, delegating the serialization of the dirty
> field to Avro (but really not desirable to have that field as a main field in
> the entities).
> The proposal is to reintroduce the {{PersistentDatumWriter/Reader}} which
> will serialize the internal fields of the entities.
> This bug affects, for example, Nutch, which loads only some fields in it's
> phases, serializes entities (from Map to Reduce), and when deserializes finds
> all fields as "dirty", independently of what fields were modified in the Map,
> and overwrite all data in datastore (deleting much things: downloaded
> content, parsed content, etc).
> This effect can be seen in
> {{TestPersistentSerialization#testSerderEmployeeTwoFields}}, when debuging in
> {{TestIOUtils#testSerializeDeserialize}}. Proper breakpoints an inspections
> shows that, entities are "equal" when it's fields are equal. This is fine as
> "equal" definition, but another test must be added to check that
> serialization an deserialization keeps the dirty state.
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