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BELUGA BEHR updated HADOOP-11678:
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    Attachment: HADOOP-11678.2.patch

> AvroSerializer buffers output in violation of contract for Serializer
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>                 Key: HADOOP-11678
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11678
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.0
>            Reporter: Matthew Willson
>            Assignee: BELUGA BEHR
>         Attachments: HADOOP-11678.1.patch, HADOOP-11678.2.patch
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> We've had issues with the deserializer running into EOFException when using 
> Cascading's TupleSerialization (which delegates to other hadoop serializers 
> to serialize entries within its tuples) in combination with AvroSerialization.
> Eventually tracked it down to the fact that AvroSerialization#AvroSerializer 
> is buffering output (since it uses a buffering EncoderFactory#binaryEncoder 
> rather than a non-buffering EncoderFactory#directBinaryEncoder):
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/e1109fb65608a668cd53dc324dadc6f63a74eeb9/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/serializer/avro/AvroSerialization.java#L105
> The contract for Serializer explicitly states "Serializers ... must not 
> buffer the output since other producers may write to the output between calls 
> to #serialize(Object)." TupleSerialization does exactly that (write to the 
> output between calls to #serialize), hence our problem.
> There's a similar problem with the AvroDeserializer too -- it uses a 
> buffering binaryDecoder, and this can consume the underlying InputStream 
> beyond the end of the datum it's decoding, meaning that if a different 
> Deserializer is used to read the next item, it'll start off in the wrong 
> place and get confused.
> Switching AvroSerializer and AvroDeserializer to use the non-buffering 
> `EncoderFactory#directBinaryEncoder` and `DecoderFactory#directBinaryDecoder` 
> fixes the issue for us.



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