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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-9444:
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Github user fhueske commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6082
I think we have to return an typed array here. A `List` won't be supported
by the built-in SQL functions.
There are a few tricks on can play to create typed arrays, even in static
code like
```
Object[] array = (Object[]) Array.newInstance(clazz, length);
```
Have a look at the code of the ORC InputFormat that had to solve a similar
challenge:
[OrcBatchReader.java](https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-connectors/flink-orc/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/orc/OrcBatchReader.java).
> KafkaAvroTableSource failed to work for map and array fields
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-9444
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9444
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Kafka Connector, Table API & SQL
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Reporter: Jun Zhang
> Priority: Blocker
> Labels: patch
> Fix For: 1.6.0
>
> Attachments: flink-9444.patch
>
>
> When some Avro schema has map/array fields and the corresponding TableSchema
> declares *MapTypeInfo/ListTypeInfo* for these fields, an exception will be
> thrown when registering the *KafkaAvroTableSource*, complaining like:
> Exception in thread "main" org.apache.flink.table.api.ValidationException:
> Type Map<String, Integer> of table field 'event' does not match with type
> GenericType<java.util.Map> of the field 'event' of the TableSource return
> type.
> at org.apache.flink.table.api.ValidationException$.apply(exceptions.scala:74)
> at
> org.apache.flink.table.sources.TableSourceUtil$$anonfun$validateTableSource$1.apply(TableSourceUtil.scala:92)
> at
> org.apache.flink.table.sources.TableSourceUtil$$anonfun$validateTableSource$1.apply(TableSourceUtil.scala:71)
> at
> scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
> at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps$ofRef.foreach(ArrayOps.scala:186)
> at
> org.apache.flink.table.sources.TableSourceUtil$.validateTableSource(TableSourceUtil.scala:71)
> at
> org.apache.flink.table.plan.schema.StreamTableSourceTable.<init>(StreamTableSourceTable.scala:33)
> at
> org.apache.flink.table.api.StreamTableEnvironment.registerTableSourceInternal(StreamTableEnvironment.scala:124)
> at
> org.apache.flink.table.api.TableEnvironment.registerTableSource(TableEnvironment.scala:438)
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