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Xiaogang Shi commented on FLINK-5397:
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The idea does work and is better. Very thanks for the quick fix :)
> Fail to deserialize savepoints in v1.1 when there exist missing fields in
> class serialization descriptors
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> Key: FLINK-5397
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5397
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: State Backends, Checkpointing
> Reporter: Xiaogang Shi
> Assignee: Stefan Richter
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> To restore from the savepoints in previous versions, Flink now keeps all
> classes whose serialization is changed and put them in a separated package
> ("migration").
> When deserializing the old savepoints, flink will look up correct descriptors
> ({{ObjectStreamClass}}) for these classes, without using those ones written
> in serialized data. The implementation however is problematic when there
> exist missing field descriptors in the serialized data.
> When serializing an object, Java will only write the descriptors of those
> non-null fields. But when we look up class descriptors with given classes,
> all fields will be put into the descriptors. As a result, we will deserialize
> the savepoints with incorrect descriptors, leading to serialization
> exceptions.
> A simple resolution is to update the name of read descriptors using
> Reflections, without using different descriptors.
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