doug, could it be a classloader (instead of classpath) issue? looking at spark it seems to run the tasks inside the slaves/workers with a custom classloader. thanks! koert
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > If the generated classes are not on the classpath then the generic > representation is used. So, yes, this sounds like a classpath > problem. > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com> wrote: > > i am observing that on a particular system (spark) my code breaks in that > > avro does not return the specific record i expected but instead returns > > generic records. > > > > > > i suspect this is some class loading issue on the distributed system > > (something about how the classpath is constructed for the spark slaves). > > > > anyone had class loading issues get in the way of avro specific? >