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Harsh J commented on MAPREDUCE-3516: ------------------------------------ I'm +1 for better error messages over javadocs. I think this is more of an user-error situation, than it is a behavior/warning. Would this regress any stuff with various serializations, that may even accept a 'null' as some valid k/v? Or does that have no chance to pass at all, since we attempt to call general methods on top of the key/value instances? > Possible NPE in org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.MapOutputBuffer.collect(K > key, V value, int partition) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-3516 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3516 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mrv2 > Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.20.2, 0.20.203.0, 0.20.205.0, 0.23.0 > Reporter: Subroto Sanyal > Assignee: Subroto Sanyal > > *org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.MapOutputBuffer.collect* accepts a pair of > Key and Value. There is chance that if somehow if a Null value or Key is > passed to the method, we can end up having NPE. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira