Luke Hutchison created FLINK-6024:
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Summary: Need more fine-grained info for "InvalidProgramException:
This type (...) cannot be used as key"
Key: FLINK-6024
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6024
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Affects Versions: 1.2.0
Reporter: Luke Hutchison
I got this very confusing exception:
InvalidProgramException: This type (MyType) cannot be used as key
I dug through the code, and could not find what was causing this. The help text
for type.isKeyType(), in Keys.java:329, right before the exception is thrown,
says: "Checks whether this type can be used as a key. As a bare minimum, types
have to be hashable and comparable to be keys." However, this didn't solve the
problem.
I discovered that in my case, the error was occurring because I added a new
constructor to the type, and I didn't have a default constructor. This is
probably quite a common thing to happen for POJOs, so the error message should
give some detail saying that this is the problem.
Other things that can cause this to fail, including that the class is not
public, or the constructor is not public, or the key field is not public, or
that the key field is not a serializable type, or the key is not Comparable, or
the key is not hashable, should be given in the error message instead,
depending on the actual cause of the problem.
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