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Renato Javier Marroquín Mogrovejo commented on GORA-401:
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Hi guys, in my opinion we should bake this a little bit longer because once the
code gets in, it will be tougher to roll it back and get people to look into
it. And also Alfonso stated that the patch is ugly, maybe we can use that as an
initial approach but find another one that plays better with the current code
base. Maybe we can release the tests to remind us that we need to fix this.
I am a -1 to release this one in 0.6, but happy to see it in 0.7 :)
> Serialization and deserialization of Persistent does not hold the entity
> dirty state from Map to Reduce
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: GORA-401
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-401
> Project: Apache Gora
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: gora-core
> Affects Versions: 0.4, 0.5
> Environment: Tested on gora-0.4, but seems logically to hold on
> gora-0.5. HBase backend.
> Reporter: Alfonso Nishikawa
> Assignee: Alfonso Nishikawa
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: serialization
> Fix For: 0.6
>
> Attachments: GORA-401-tests.patch, GORA-401v1.patch,
> GORA-401v2.patch, GORA-401v3.patch, GORA-401v4.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 35h
> Time Spent: 21h
> Remaining Estimate: 14h
>
> After removing __g__dirty field in GORA-326, dirty field is not serialized.
> In GORA-321
> {{[PersistentSerializer|https://github.com/apache/gora/blob/master/gora-core/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/mapreduce/PersistentSerializer.java]}}
> went from using
> {{[PersistentDatumWriter|https://github.com/apache/gora/blob/apache-gora-0.3/gora-core/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/avro/PersistentDatumWriter.java](/Reader)}}
> to Avro's {{SpecificDatumWriter}}, delegating the serialization of the dirty
> field to Avro (but really not desirable to have that field as a main field in
> the entities).
> The proposal is to reintroduce the {{PersistentDatumWriter/Reader}} which
> will serialize the internal fields of the entities.
> This bug affects, for example, Nutch, which loads only some fields in it's
> phases, serializes entities (from Map to Reduce), and when deserializes finds
> all fields as "dirty", independently of what fields were modified in the Map,
> and overwrite all data in datastore (deleting much things: downloaded
> content, parsed content, etc).
> This effect can be seen in
> {{TestPersistentSerialization#testSerderEmployeeTwoFields}}, when debuging in
> {{TestIOUtils#testSerializeDeserialize}}. Proper breakpoints an inspections
> shows that, entities are "equal" when it's fields are equal. This is fine as
> "equal" definition, but another test must be added to check that
> serialization an deserialization keeps the dirty state.
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