arganzheng created FLINK-12725:
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Summary: Need to copy flink-hadoop-compatibility jar explicitly to
${FLINK-HOME}/lib location
Key: FLINK-12725
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12725
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Connectors / Hadoop Compatibility
Reporter: arganzheng
I am currently working on an Flink application that uses some of the Hadoop
dependencies to write the data to HDFS. On local environment it is working
fine, however when I deploy this Flink application on the cluster it throws an
exception related to compatibility issue.
The error message that I am getting is
```
java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load the TypeInformation for the class
'org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable'. You may be missing the
'flink-hadoop-compatibility' dependency. at
org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.createHadoopWritableTypeInfo(TypeExtractor.java:2025)
at
org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.privateGetForClass(TypeExtractor.java:1649)
at
org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.privateGetForClass(TypeExtractor.java:1591)
at
org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.createTypeInfoWithTypeHierarchy(TypeExtractor.java:778)
....
```
I try to included the maven dependency of {{flink-hadoop-compatibility}} jar in
POM dependency. But it is not detecting it. The Flink version I am using is
1.8.0
However, when I explicitly copy the compatibility JAR to the
{{${FLINK-HOME}/lib}} location, I am not getting any exception and able to run
the Flink application successfully.
I try dive into the source code, and find the problem:
```java
package org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils;
public class TypeExtractor {
/** The name of the class representing Hadoop's writable */
private static final String HADOOP_WRITABLE_CLASS =
"org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable";
private static final String HADOOP_WRITABLE_TYPEINFO_CLASS =
"org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.WritableTypeInfo";
// visible for testing
public static <T> TypeInformation<T> createHadoopWritableTypeInfo(Class<T>
clazz) {
checkNotNull(clazz);
Class<?> typeInfoClass;
try {
typeInfoClass = Class.forName(HADOOP_WRITABLE_TYPEINFO_CLASS, false,
TypeExtractor.class.getClassLoader());
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Could not load the TypeInformation for the class '"
+ HADOOP_WRITABLE_CLASS + "'. You may be missing the
'flink-hadoop-compatibility' dependency.");
}
...
}
}
```
This is because `org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable` is mean to be loaded by
TypeExtractor.class.getClassLoader() which is `AppClassLoader`, and the
submited flink jar is loaded by `ParentFirstClassLoader`, which is the child of
`AppClassLoader`, so `AppClassLoader` can not load
`org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable` from your flink jar.
I'm not sure if it's a bug, change to classLoader to
`Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()` will make it work without copy
the flink-hadoop-compatibility jar file to ${FLINK-HOME}/lib location.
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