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Cameron Pope commented on HADOOP-120: ------------------------------------- Yes, that's definitely a better fix and if anyone is using ArrayWritable's default constructor, it sould be easy to change. > Reading an ArrayWriter does not work because valueClass does not get > initialized > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-120 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-120 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: io > Affects Versions: 0.15.0 > Environment: Red Hat > Reporter: Dick King > Assignee: Doug Cutting > Attachments: HADOOP-120-3.patch, hadoop-120-fix.patch, > hadoop-120-workaround.patch > > > If you have a Reducer whose value type is an ArrayWriter it gets enstreamed > alright but at reconstruction type when ArrayWriter::readFields(DataInput in) > runs on a DataInput that has a nonempty ArrayWriter , newInstance fails > trying to instantiate the null class. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.