Gabor Gevay created FLINK-2447:
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             Summary: TypeExtractor returns wrong type info when a Tuple has 
two fields of the same POJO type
                 Key: FLINK-2447
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2447
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Gabor Gevay


Consider the following code:

DataSet<FooBarPojo> d1 = env.fromElements(new FooBarPojo());
                DataSet<Tuple2<FooBarPojo, FooBarPojo>> d2 = d1.map(new 
MapFunction<FooBarPojo, Tuple2<FooBarPojo, FooBarPojo>>() {
                        @Override
                        public Tuple2<FooBarPojo, FooBarPojo> map(FooBarPojo 
value) throws Exception {
                                return null;
                        }
                });

where FooBarPojo is the following type:
public class FooBarPojo {
        public int foo, bar;
        public FooBarPojo() {}
}

This should print a tuple type with two identical fields:
Java Tuple2<PojoType<FooBarPojo, fields = [bar: Integer, foo: Integer]>, 
PojoType<FooBarPojo, fields = [bar: Integer, foo: Integer]>>

But it prints the following instead:
Java Tuple2<PojoType<FooBarPojo, fields = [bar: Integer, foo: Integer]>, 
GenericType<FooBarPojo>>

Note, that this problem causes some co-groups in Gelly to crash with 
"org.apache.flink.api.common.InvalidProgramException: The pair of co-group keys 
are not compatible with each other" when the vertex ID type is a POJO, because 
the second field of the Edge type gets to be a generic type, but the POJO gets 
recognized in the Vertex type, and getNumberOfKeyFields returns different 
numbers for the POJO and the generic type.

The source of the problem is the mechanism in TypeExtractor that would detect 
recursive types (see the "alreadySeen" field in TypeExtractor), as it mistakes 
the second appearance of FooBarPojo with a recursive field.

Specifically the following happens: createTypeInfoWithTypeHierarchy
starts to process the Tuple2<FooBarPojo, FooBarPojo> type, and in line 434 it 
calls itself for the first field, which proceeds into the privateGetForClass 
case which correctly detects that it is a POJO, and correctly returns a 
PojoTypeInfo; but in the meantime in line 1191, privateGetForClass adds 
PojoTypeInfo to "alreadySeen". Then the outer createTypeInfoWithTypeHierarchy 
approaches the second field, goes into privateGetForClass, which mistakenly 
returns a GenericTypeInfo, as it thinks in line 1187, that a recursive type is 
being processed.

(Note, that if we comment out the recursive type detection (the lines that do 
their thing with the alreadySeen field), then the output is correct.)



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