Re: reflected char array returning null package.

[Doug Cutting]

In Avro 1.2's reflect implementation, Strings must be represented with 
Avro's Utf8 class.  Folks reasonably complained that this is not very 
useful, and it's being fixed for Avro 1.3.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-80
I'm currently investing a lot of effort improving reflect, and reflect 
should work considerably better in 1.3.  That said, unless you have an 
existing RPC codebase that you need to move onto Avro with minimal 
disruption, the specific API is much easier to use than the reflect API. 
 Avro schemas are mostly an expressive subset of Java, so mapping Avro 
to Java is much simpler than mapping Java to Avro.

Doug

Marko Milicevic wrote:
Hello.  I'm running the following code under the avro 1.2.0 release and
jdk 1.6.0_10.

public interface ISink
{
    public void send( String msg );
} 
 
public class Sink implements ISink
{
        public void send( String msg )
        {
        }
}


public void test()
{
    SocketServer server = 
	new SocketServer(new SpecificResponder(
            ISink.class, new Sink()), new InetSocketAddress(3333));

    SocketTransceiver client =
        new SocketTransceiver(new InetSocketAddress(server.getPort()));
        
    ISink proxy = (ISink)SpecificRequestor.getClient(ISink.class,
client);

    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )
    {
        proxy.send("testing");
    }

    client.close();
    server.close();
}


First I was getting errors until I learned of paranamer.
I thought I read in the doc, that no pre-processing would be necessary?

I'm fine with having to run paranamer, but want to be sure that it is
required?


Now after processing with paranamer I get the following error trying to
run...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:259)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createFieldSchema(ReflectData.java:3
03)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:291)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createFieldSchema(ReflectData.java:3
03)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:291)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.getMessage(ReflectData.java:339)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.getProtocol(ReflectData.java:318)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectResponder.<init>(ReflectResponder.java:45
)
        at
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectResponder.<init>(ReflectResponder.java:41
)

//
org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.createSchema(ReflectData.java:259)
  } else if (type instanceof Class) {
      Class c = (Class)type;
      String name = c.getSimpleName();
     String space = c.getPackage().getName();
      if (c.getEnclosingClass() != null)          // nested class
        space = c.getEnclosingClass().getName() + "$";
      String fullName = c.getName();
      Schema schema = names.get(fullName);
      if (schema == null) {

Stepping though the debugger, the type appears to be "class [C", with
the name "value".  I assume that is the "value" char[] in the String
msg.

Should a Class of type "class [C", return a package of null?

If so, any idea what I'm doing incorrectly?

Thank you.

Marko.
.