Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1920#discussion_r61819193 --- Diff: flink-batch-connectors/flink-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/io/avro/AvroRecordInputFormatTest.java --- @@ -289,6 +290,119 @@ public void testDeserializeToSpecificType() throws IOException { } } + /** + * Test if the AvroInputFormat is able to properly read data from an Avro + * file as a GenericRecord. + * + * @throws IOException, + * if there is an exception + */ + @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") + @Test + public void testDeserialisationGenericRecord() throws IOException { + Configuration parameters = new Configuration(); + + AvroInputFormat<GenericRecord> format = new AvroInputFormat<GenericRecord>(new Path(testFile.getAbsolutePath()), + GenericRecord.class); + try { + format.configure(parameters); + FileInputSplit[] splits = format.createInputSplits(1); + assertEquals(splits.length, 1); + format.open(splits[0]); + + GenericRecord u = format.nextRecord(null); --- End diff -- But this test tests the `GenericRecord` mode with object reuse. Is it valid to give `null` as a reuse object?
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