Definitely agree with you. Have created 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-22297 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-22297> as a following up.

> 2021年4月16日 上午7:10,Yik San Chan <evan.chanyik...@gmail.com> 写道:
> 
> Hi Dian,
> 
> I wonder if we can improve the error tracing and message so that it becomes 
> more obvious where the problem is? To me, a NPE really says very little.
> 
> Best,
> Yik San
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:07 AM Dian Fu <dian0511...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:dian0511...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Great! Thanks for letting me know~
> 
>> 2021年4月15日 上午11:01,Yik San Chan <evan.chanyik...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:evan.chanyik...@gmail.com>> 写道:
>> 
>> Hi Dian,
>> 
>> Thanks for the reminder. Yes, the original udf implementation does not 
>> qualify the input and output type requirement. After adding a unit test, I 
>> was able to find what's wrong, and fix my UDF implementation. Here is the 
>> new implementation FYI.
>> 
>> @udf(result_type=DataTypes.DOUBLE(), func_type="pandas")
>> def predict(users, items):
>>     n_users, n_items = 943, 1682
>>     model = MatrixFactorization(n_users, n_items)
>>     model.load_state_dict(torch.load("model.pth"))
>>     return pd.Series(model(users, items).detach().numpy())
>> 
>> And here is the unit test.
>> 
>> def test_predict():
>>     f = predict._func
>>     users = pd.Series([1, 2, 3])
>>     items = pd.Series([1, 4, 9])
>>     preds = f(users, items)
>>     assert isinstance(preds, pd.Series)
>>     assert len(preds) == 3
>> 
>> Thank you so much!
>> 
>> Best,
>> Yik San
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:03 PM Dian Fu <dian0511...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dian0511...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Hi Yik San,
>> 
>> 1) There are two kinds of Python UDFs in PyFlink: 
>> - General Python UDFs which process input elements at row basis. That is, it 
>> will process one row at a time. 
>> -  Pandas UDFs which process input elements at batch basis.
>> So you are correct that you need to use Pandas UDF for your requirements.
>> 
>> 2) For Pandas UDF, the input type for each input argument is Pandas.Series 
>> and the result type should also be a Pandas.Series. Besides, the length of 
>> the result should be the same as the inputs. Could you check if this is the 
>> case for your Pandas UDF implementation? 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dian
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 9:44 PM Yik San Chan <evan.chanyik...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:evan.chanyik...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> The question is cross-posted on Stack Overflow 
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67092978/pyflink-vectorized-udf-throws-nullpointerexception
>>  
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67092978/pyflink-vectorized-udf-throws-nullpointerexception>.
>> 
>> I have a ML model that takes two numpy.ndarray - `users` and `items` - and 
>> returns an numpy.ndarray `predictions`. In normal Python code, I would do:
>> 
>> ```python
>> model = load_model()
>> 
>> df = load_data() # the DataFrame includes 4 columns, namely, user_id, 
>> movie_id, rating, and timestamp
>> 
>> users = df.user_id.values
>> items = df.movie_id.values
>> 
>> predictions = model(users, items)
>> ```
>> 
>> I am looking into porting this code into Flink to leverage its distributed 
>> nature. My assumption is: by distributing the prediction workload on 
>> multiple Flink nodes, I should be able to run the whole prediction faster.
>> 
>> So I compose a PyFlink job. Note I implement an UDF called `predict` to run 
>> the prediction.
>> 
>> ```python
>> # batch_prediction.py
>> 
>> model = load_model()
>> 
>> settings = EnvironmentSettings.new_instance().use_blink_planner().build()
>> exec_env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.get_execution_environment()
>> t_env = StreamTableEnvironment.create(exec_env, 
>> environment_settings=settings)
>> 
>> SOURCE_DDL = """
>> CREATE TABLE source (
>>     user_id INT,
>>     movie_id INT,
>>     rating TINYINT,
>>     event_ms BIGINT
>> ) WITH (
>>     'connector' = 'filesystem',
>>     'format' = 'csv',
>>     'csv.field-delimiter' = '\t',
>>     'path' = 'ml-100k/u1.test'
>> )
>> """
>> 
>> SINK_DDL = """
>> CREATE TABLE sink (
>>     prediction DOUBLE
>> ) WITH (
>>     'connector' = 'print'
>> )
>> """
>> 
>> t_env.execute_sql(SOURCE_DDL)
>> t_env.execute_sql(SINK_DDL)
>> t_env.execute_sql(
>>     "INSERT INTO sink SELECT PREDICT(user_id, movie_id) FROM source"
>> ).wait()
>> ```
>> 
>> Here is the UDF.
>> 
>> ```python
>> # batch_prediction.py (cont)
>> 
>> @udf(result_type=DataTypes.DOUBLE())
>> def predict(user, item):
>>     return model([user], [item]).item()
>> 
>> t_env.create_temporary_function("predict", predict)
>> ```
>> 
>> The job runs fine. However, the prediction actually runs on each and every 
>> row of the `source` table, which is not performant. Instead, I want to split 
>> the 80,000 (user_id, movie_id) pairs into, let's say, 100 batches, with each 
>> batch having 800 rows. The job triggers the `model(users, items)` function 
>> 100 times (= # of batch), where both `users` and `items` have 800 elements.
>> 
>> I couldn't find a way to do this. By looking at the 
>> [docs](https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/dev/python/table-api-users-guide/udfs/vectorized_python_udfs.html
>>  
>> <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/dev/python/table-api-users-guide/udfs/vectorized_python_udfs.html>),
>>  vectorized user-defined functions may work.
>> 
>> ```python
>> # batch_prediction.py (snippet)
>> 
>> # I add the func_type="pandas"
>> @udf(result_type=DataTypes.DOUBLE(), func_type="pandas")
>> def predict(user, item):
>>     ...
>> ```
>> 
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't.
>> 
>> ```
>> > python batch_prediction.py
>> ...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "batch_prediction.py", line 55, in <module>
>>     "INSERT INTO sink SELECT PREDICT(user_id, movie_id) FROM source"
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/flink-ml/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyflink/table/table_result.py",
>>  line 76, in wait
>>     get_method(self._j_table_result, "await")()
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/flink-ml/lib/python3.7/site-packages/py4j/java_gateway.py",
>>  line 1286, in __call__
>>     answer, self.gateway_client, self.target_id, self.name 
>> <http://self.name/>)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/flink-ml/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyflink/util/exceptions.py",
>>  line 147, in deco
>>     return f(*a, **kw)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/flink-ml/lib/python3.7/site-packages/py4j/protocol.py",
>>  line 328, in get_return_value
>>     format(target_id, ".", name), value)
>> py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o51.await.
>> : java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.TableException: Failed to wait job finish
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.reportGet(CompletableFuture.java:357)
>> at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.get(CompletableFuture.java:1908)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.TableResultImpl.awaitInternal(TableResultImpl.java:119)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.TableResultImpl.await(TableResultImpl.java:86)
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>> at 
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>> at 
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.api.python.shaded.py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.api.python.shaded.py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
>> at org.apache.flink.api.python.shaded.py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.api.python.shaded.py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.api.python.shaded.py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.api.python.shaded.py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238)
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
>> Caused by: org.apache.flink.table.api.TableException: Failed to wait job 
>> finish
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.InsertResultIterator.hasNext(InsertResultIterator.java:59)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.TableResultImpl$CloseableRowIteratorWrapper.hasNext(TableResultImpl.java:355)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.TableResultImpl$CloseableRowIteratorWrapper.isFirstRowReady(TableResultImpl.java:368)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.TableResultImpl.lambda$awaitInternal$1(TableResultImpl.java:107)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncRun.run(CompletableFuture.java:1640)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
>> ... 1 more
>> Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobExecutionException: Job execution failed.
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.reportGet(CompletableFuture.java:357)
>> at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.get(CompletableFuture.java:1908)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.InsertResultIterator.hasNext(InsertResultIterator.java:57)
>> ... 7 more
>> Caused by: org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobExecutionException: Job 
>> execution failed.
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.JobResult.toJobExecutionResult(JobResult.java:147)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.minicluster.MiniClusterJobClient.lambda$getJobExecutionResult$2(MiniClusterJobClient.java:119)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniApply(CompletableFuture.java:616)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniApply.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:591)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:488)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:1975)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaInvocationHandler.lambda$invokeRpc$0(AkkaInvocationHandler.java:229)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniWhenComplete(CompletableFuture.java:774)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniWhenComplete.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:750)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:488)
>> at 
>> java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:1975)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.concurrent.FutureUtils$1.onComplete(FutureUtils.java:996)
>> at akka.dispatch.OnComplete.internal(Future.scala:264)
>> at akka.dispatch.OnComplete.internal(Future.scala:261)
>> at akka.dispatch.japi$CallbackBridge.apply(Future.scala:191)
>> at akka.dispatch.japi$CallbackBridge.apply(Future.scala:188)
>> at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.run(Promise.scala:36)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.concurrent.Executors$DirectExecutionContext.execute(Executors.java:74)
>> at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.executeWithValue(Promise.scala:44)
>> at 
>> scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise.tryComplete(Promise.scala:252)
>> at akka.pattern.PromiseActorRef.$bang(AskSupport.scala:572)
>> at 
>> akka.pattern.PipeToSupport$PipeableFuture$$anonfun$pipeTo$1.applyOrElse(PipeToSupport.scala:22)
>> at 
>> akka.pattern.PipeToSupport$PipeableFuture$$anonfun$pipeTo$1.applyOrElse(PipeToSupport.scala:21)
>> at scala.concurrent.Future$$anonfun$andThen$1.apply(Future.scala:436)
>> at scala.concurrent.Future$$anonfun$andThen$1.apply(Future.scala:435)
>> at scala.concurrent.impl.CallbackRunnable.run(Promise.scala:36)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$AbstractBatch.processBatch(BatchingExecutor.scala:55)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$BlockableBatch$$anonfun$run$1.apply$mcV$sp(BatchingExecutor.scala:91)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$BlockableBatch$$anonfun$run$1.apply(BatchingExecutor.scala:91)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$BlockableBatch$$anonfun$run$1.apply(BatchingExecutor.scala:91)
>> at scala.concurrent.BlockContext$.withBlockContext(BlockContext.scala:72)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.BatchingExecutor$BlockableBatch.run(BatchingExecutor.scala:90)
>> at akka.dispatch.TaskInvocation.run(AbstractDispatcher.scala:40)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator.scala:44)
>> at akka.dispatch.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339)
>> at akka.dispatch.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979)
>> at 
>> akka.dispatch.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107)
>> Caused by: org.apache.flink.runtime.JobException: Recovery is suppressed by 
>> NoRestartBackoffTimeStrategy
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.executiongraph.failover.flip1.ExecutionFailureHandler.handleFailure(ExecutionFailureHandler.java:116)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.executiongraph.failover.flip1.ExecutionFailureHandler.getFailureHandlingResult(ExecutionFailureHandler.java:78)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.scheduler.DefaultScheduler.handleTaskFailure(DefaultScheduler.java:224)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.scheduler.DefaultScheduler.maybeHandleTaskFailure(DefaultScheduler.java:217)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.scheduler.DefaultScheduler.updateTaskExecutionStateInternal(DefaultScheduler.java:208)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.scheduler.SchedulerBase.updateTaskExecutionState(SchedulerBase.java:610)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.scheduler.SchedulerNG.updateTaskExecutionState(SchedulerNG.java:89)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.JobMaster.updateTaskExecutionState(JobMaster.java:419)
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>> at 
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>> at 
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.handleRpcInvocation(AkkaRpcActor.java:286)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.handleRpcMessage(AkkaRpcActor.java:201)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.FencedAkkaRpcActor.handleRpcMessage(FencedAkkaRpcActor.java:74)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.handleMessage(AkkaRpcActor.java:154)
>> at akka.japi.pf.UnitCaseStatement.apply(CaseStatements.scala:26)
>> at akka.japi.pf.UnitCaseStatement.apply(CaseStatements.scala:21)
>> at scala.PartialFunction$class.applyOrElse(PartialFunction.scala:123)
>> at akka.japi.pf.UnitCaseStatement.applyOrElse(CaseStatements.scala:21)
>> at scala.PartialFunction$OrElse.applyOrElse(PartialFunction.scala:170)
>> at scala.PartialFunction$OrElse.applyOrElse(PartialFunction.scala:171)
>> at scala.PartialFunction$OrElse.applyOrElse(PartialFunction.scala:171)
>> at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive(Actor.scala:517)
>> at akka.actor.AbstractActor.aroundReceive(AbstractActor.scala:225)
>> at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:592)
>> at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:561)
>> at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:258)
>> at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:225)
>> at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.exec(Mailbox.scala:235)
>> ... 4 more
>> Caused by: org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.AsynchronousException: 
>> Caught exception while processing timer.
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask$StreamTaskAsyncExceptionHandler.handleAsyncException(StreamTask.java:1108)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.handleAsyncException(StreamTask.java:1082)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invokeProcessingTimeCallback(StreamTask.java:1213)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.lambda$null$17(StreamTask.java:1202)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTaskActionExecutor$SynchronizedStreamTaskActionExecutor.runThrowing(StreamTaskActionExecutor.java:92)
>> at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.mailbox.Mail.run(Mail.java:78)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.mailbox.MailboxExecutorImpl.tryYield(MailboxExecutorImpl.java:91)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamOperatorWrapper.quiesceTimeServiceAndCloseOperator(StreamOperatorWrapper.java:155)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamOperatorWrapper.close(StreamOperatorWrapper.java:130)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain.closeOperators(OperatorChain.java:412)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.afterInvoke(StreamTask.java:585)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:547)
>> at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.doRun(Task.java:722)
>> at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:547)
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
>> Caused by: TimerException{java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to close remote 
>> bundle}
>> ... 13 more
>> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to close remote bundle
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.runners.python.beam.BeamPythonFunctionRunner.finishBundle(BeamPythonFunctionRunner.java:371)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.runners.python.beam.BeamPythonFunctionRunner.flush(BeamPythonFunctionRunner.java:325)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.python.AbstractPythonFunctionOperator.invokeFinishBundle(AbstractPythonFunctionOperator.java:291)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.table.runtime.operators.python.scalar.arrow.RowDataArrowPythonScalarFunctionOperator.invokeFinishBundle(RowDataArrowPythonScalarFunctionOperator.java:77)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.python.AbstractPythonFunctionOperator.checkInvokeFinishBundleByTime(AbstractPythonFunctionOperator.java:285)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.python.AbstractPythonFunctionOperator.lambda$open$0(AbstractPythonFunctionOperator.java:134)
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invokeProcessingTimeCallback(StreamTask.java:1211)
>> ... 12 more
>> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>> at 
>> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.runners.python.beam.BeamPythonFunctionRunner.finishBundle(BeamPythonFunctionRunner.java:369)
>> ... 18 more
>> ```
>> 
>> The error messages are not very helpful. Can anyone help? Thanks!
>> 
>> Note: source code can be found 
>> [here](https://github.com/YikSanChan/flink-torch/tree/83ea0510172db3d7ff33db19883150f2fe5c1f43
>>  
>> <https://github.com/YikSanChan/flink-torch/tree/83ea0510172db3d7ff33db19883150f2fe5c1f43>).
>>  To run the code, you will need Anaconda locally, then:
>> 
>> ```
>> conda env create -f environment.yml
>> conda activate flink-ml
>> ```
>> 
>> Best,
>> Yik San
> 

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