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Timothy Miller commented on PARQUET-1681: ----------------------------------------- Is this related to PARQUET-2069? It looks like it might be. > Avro's isElementType() change breaks the reading of some parquet(1.8.1) files > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PARQUET-1681 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1681 > Project: Parquet > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: parquet-avro > Affects Versions: 1.10.0, 1.9.1, 1.11.0 > Reporter: Xinli Shang > Assignee: Xinli Shang > Priority: Critical > > When using the Avro schema below to write a parquet(1.8.1) file and then read > back by using parquet 1.10.1 without passing any schema, the reading throws > an exception "XXX is not a group" . Reading through parquet 1.8.1 is fine. > { > "name": "phones", > "type": [ > "null", > { > "type": "array", > "items": { > "type": "record", > "name": "phones_items", > "fields": [ > > { "name": "phone_number", > "type": [ "null", > "string" ], "default": null > } > ] > } > } > ], > "default": null > } > The code to read is as below > val reader = > AvroParquetReader._builder_[SomeRecordType](parquetPath).withConf(*new* > Configuration).build() > reader.read() > PARQUET-651 changed the method isElementType() by relying on Avro's > checkReaderWriterCompatibility() to check the compatibility. However, > checkReaderWriterCompatibility() consider the ParquetSchema and the > AvroSchema(converted from File schema) as not compatible(the name in avro > schema is ‘phones_items’, but the name is ‘array’ in Parquet schema, hence > not compatible) . Hence return false and caused the “phone_number” field in > the above schema to be considered as group type which is not true. Then the > exception throws as .asGroupType(). > I didn’t try writing via parquet 1.10.1 would reproduce the same problem or > not. But it could because the translation of Avro schema to Parquet schema is > not changed(didn’t verify yet). > I hesitate to revert PARQUET-651 because it solved several problems. I would > like to hear the community's thoughts on it. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.1#820001)