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Gabor Szadovszky updated AVRO-2109:
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
           Status: Resolved  (was: Patch Available)

> Reset buffers in case of IOException
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>
>                 Key: AVRO-2109
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2109
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.2
>            Reporter: Gabor Szadovszky
>            Assignee: Gabor Szadovszky
>             Fix For: 1.7.8, 1.9.0, 1.8.3
>
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> In case of an {{IOException}} is thrown out from 
> {{DataFileWriter.writeBlock}} the {{buffer}} and {{blockCount}} are not reset 
> therefore duplicated data is written out when {{close}}/{{flush}}.
> This is actually a conceptual question whether we should reset the buffer or 
> not in case of an exception. In case of an exception occurs during writing 
> the file we shall expect that the file will be corrupt. So, the possible 
> duplication of data shall not matter.
> In the other hand if the file is already corrupt why would we try to write 
> anything again at file close?
> This issue comes from a Flume issue where the HDFS wait thread is interrupted 
> because of a timeout during writing an Avro file. The actual block is 
> properly written already but because of the {{IOException}} caused by the 
> thread interrupt we invoke {{close()}} on the writer which writes the block 
> again with some other stuff (maybe duplicated sync marker) that makes the 
> file corrupt.
> [~busbey], [~nkollar], [~zi], any thoughts?



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