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Todd Lipcon commented on HADOOP-7328:
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Are you OK with replacing the current behavior (throws NPE) with a "return
null" instead, like the original patch on this JIRA? Anyone depending on a
thrown NPE is just asking for trouble
> Give more information about a missing Serializer class
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> Key: HADOOP-7328
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7328
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: io
> Affects Versions: 0.20.2
> Reporter: Harsh J
> Assignee: Harsh J
> Labels: io, serialization
> Fix For: 0.23.0
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> Attachments: HADOOP-7328.r1.diff, HADOOP-7328.r2.diff,
> HADOOP-7328.r3.diff
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> When you have a key/value class that's non Writable and you forget to attach
> io.serializers for the same, an NPE is thrown by the tasks with no
> information on why or what's missing and what led to it. I think a better
> exception can be thrown by SerializationFactory instead of an NPE when a
> class is not found accepted by any of the loaded ones.
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