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Jonathan Coveney commented on PIG-2827: --------------------------------------- +1. We want to get rid of all of these cases where exceptions are swallowed, good catch > TOP exception bug > ----------------- > > Key: PIG-2827 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2827 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Haitao Yao > Attachments: TOP.patch > > > the current exception will swallow the inner exception's stacktrace like this: > java.lang.RuntimeException: General Exception executing function: > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.pig.builtin.TOP.exec(TOP.java:133) > at org.apache.pig.builtin.TOP.exec(TOP.java:1) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POUserFunc.getNext(POUserFunc.java:216) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POUserFunc.getNext(POUserFunc.java:258) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.getNext(PhysicalOperator.java:316) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.processPlan(POForEach.java:332) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.getNext(POForEach.java:284) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.processInput(PhysicalOperator.java:290) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.getNext(POForEach.java:233) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.runPipeline(PigGenericMapReduce.java:460) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.processOnePackageOutput(PigGenericMapReduce.java:428) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigGenericMapReduce.java:408) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigGenericMapReduce.java:1) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer.run(Reducer.java:176) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.runNewReducer(ReduceTask.java:650) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:418) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:255) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) > at > org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1131) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:249) > we can not locate the real errors. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira