[jira] [Created] (FLINK-4640) Serialization of the initialValue of a Fold on WindowedStream fails

[Fabian Hueske (JIRA)]

Fabian Hueske created FLINK-4640:
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             Summary: Serialization of the initialValue of a Fold on 
WindowedStream fails
                 Key: FLINK-4640
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4640
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Streaming
    Affects Versions: 1.1.2, 1.2.0
            Reporter: Fabian Hueske
            Priority: Critical
             Fix For: 1.2.0, 1.1.3


The following program

{code}
DataStream<Tuple2<String, Long>> src = env.fromElements(new Tuple2<String, 
Long>("a", 1L));

src
  .keyBy(1)
  .timeWindow(Time.minutes(5))
  .fold(TreeMultimap.<Long, String>create(), new FoldFunction<Tuple2<String, 
Long>, TreeMultimap<Long, String>>() {
    @Override
    public TreeMultimap<Long, String> fold(
        TreeMultimap<Long, String> topKSoFar, 
        Tuple2<String, Long> itemCount) throws Exception 
    {
      String item = itemCount.f0;
      Long count = itemCount.f1;
      topKSoFar.put(count, item);
      if (topKSoFar.keySet().size() > 10) {
        topKSoFar.removeAll(topKSoFar.keySet().first());
      }
      return topKSoFar;
    }
});
{code}

throws this exception

{quote}
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not add value to folding state.
        at 
org.apache.flink.runtime.state.memory.MemFoldingState.add(MemFoldingState.java:91)
        at 
org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.operators.windowing.WindowOperator.processElement(WindowOperator.java:382)
        at 
org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamInputProcessor.processInput(StreamInputProcessor.java:176)
        at 
org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OneInputStreamTask.run(OneInputStreamTask.java:66)
        at 
org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:266)
        at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:584)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
com.google.common.collect.AbstractMapBasedMultimap.put(AbstractMapBasedMultimap.java:192)
        at 
com.google.common.collect.AbstractSetMultimap.put(AbstractSetMultimap.java:121)
        at com.google.common.collect.TreeMultimap.put(TreeMultimap.java:78)
        at 
org.apache.flink.streaming.examples.wordcount.WordCount$1.fold(WordCount.java:115)
        at 
org.apache.flink.streaming.examples.wordcount.WordCount$1.fold(WordCount.java:109)
        at 
org.apache.flink.runtime.state.memory.MemFoldingState.add(MemFoldingState.java:85)
        ... 6 more
{quote}

Using the same {{FoldFunction}} on a {{KeyedStream}} (without a window) works 
fine.

I tracked the problem down to the serialization of the {{StateDescriptor}}, 
i.e., the {{writeObject()}} and {{readObject()}} methods. The methods use 
Flink's TypeSerializers to serialize the default value. In case of the 
{{TreeMultiMap}} this is the {{KryoSerializer}} which fails to read the 
serialized data for some reason.

A quick workaround to solve this issue would be to check if the default value 
implements {{Serializable}} and use Java Serialization in this case. However, 
it would be good to track the root cause of this problem.



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