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pranav agrawal commented on HIVE-11625:
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I am reading data from avro file, processing it and writing to parquet and 
getting this issue. My types are Array<int> and Array<string>. Please suggest a 
workaround.

> Map instances with null keys are not properly handled for Parquet tables
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-11625
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-11625
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.0, 0.13.1, 1.0.1, 1.1.1, 1.2.1
>            Reporter: Cheng Lian
>            Priority: Major
>
> Hive allows maps with null keys:
> {code:sql}
> hive> select map(null, 'foo', 1, 'bar', null, 'baz');
> {null:"baz",1:"bar"}
> {code}
> However, when written into Parquet tables, map entries with null as keys are 
> either dropped or cause exceptions. Below is the result of Hive 0.14.0 and 
> 0.13.1:
> {code:sql}
> hive> CREATE TABLE map_test STORED AS PARQUET
>     > AS SELECT MAP(null, 'foo', 1, 'bar', null, 'baz');
> ...
> hive> SELECT * from map_test;
> {1:"bar"}
> {code}
> And Hive 1.2.1 throws exception:
> {noformat}
> java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: 
> Hive Runtime Error while processing writable (null)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecMapper.map(ExecMapper.java:172)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:50)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:430)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:366)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:255)
>       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>       at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1190)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:249)
> Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Hive Runtime 
> Error while processing writable (null)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.process(MapOperator.java:516)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecMapper.map(ExecMapper.java:163)
>       ... 8 more
> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Parquet record is malformed: empty 
> fields are illegal, the field should be ommited completely instead
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.write(DataWritableWriter.java:64)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriteSupport.write(DataWritableWriteSupport.java:59)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriteSupport.write(DataWritableWriteSupport.java:31)
>       at 
> parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter.write(InternalParquetRecordWriter.java:121)
>       at 
> parquet.hadoop.ParquetRecordWriter.write(ParquetRecordWriter.java:123)
>       at parquet.hadoop.ParquetRecordWriter.write(ParquetRecordWriter.java:42)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.write(ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.java:111)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.write(ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.java:124)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.process(FileSinkOperator.java:753)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:837)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.process(SelectOperator.java:88)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:837)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TableScanOperator.process(TableScanOperator.java:97)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator$MapOpCtx.forward(MapOperator.java:162)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.process(MapOperator.java:508)
>       ... 9 more
> Caused by: parquet.io.ParquetEncodingException: empty fields are illegal, the 
> field should be ommited completely instead
>       at 
> parquet.io.MessageColumnIO$MessageColumnIORecordConsumer.endField(MessageColumnIO.java:244)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.writeMap(DataWritableWriter.java:228)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.writeValue(DataWritableWriter.java:116)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.writeGroupFields(DataWritableWriter.java:89)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.write(DataWritableWriter.java:60)
>       ... 23 more
> java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: 
> Hive Runtime Error while processing writable (null)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecMapper.map(ExecMapper.java:172)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:50)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:430)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:366)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:255)
>       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>       at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1190)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:249)
> Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Hive Runtime 
> Error while processing writable (null)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.process(MapOperator.java:516)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecMapper.map(ExecMapper.java:163)
>       ... 8 more
> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Parquet record is malformed: empty 
> fields are illegal, the field should be ommited completely instead
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.write(DataWritableWriter.java:64)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriteSupport.write(DataWritableWriteSupport.java:59)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriteSupport.write(DataWritableWriteSupport.java:31)
>       at 
> parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter.write(InternalParquetRecordWriter.java:121)
>       at 
> parquet.hadoop.ParquetRecordWriter.write(ParquetRecordWriter.java:123)
>       at parquet.hadoop.ParquetRecordWriter.write(ParquetRecordWriter.java:42)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.write(ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.java:111)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.write(ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.java:124)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.process(FileSinkOperator.java:753)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:837)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.process(SelectOperator.java:88)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:837)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TableScanOperator.process(TableScanOperator.java:97)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator$MapOpCtx.forward(MapOperator.java:162)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.process(MapOperator.java:508)
>       ... 9 more
> Caused by: parquet.io.ParquetEncodingException: empty fields are illegal, the 
> field should be ommited completely instead
>       at 
> parquet.io.MessageColumnIO$MessageColumnIORecordConsumer.endField(MessageColumnIO.java:244)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.writeMap(DataWritableWriter.java:228)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.writeValue(DataWritableWriter.java:116)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.writeGroupFields(DataWritableWriter.java:89)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.DataWritableWriter.write(DataWritableWriter.java:60)
>       ... 23 more
> {noformat}
> The problematic method is 
> [{{DataWritableWriter.writeMap()}}|https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/release-1.2.1/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/io/parquet/write/DataWritableWriter.java#L223-L237].
>   Although the key value entry is not null, either key or value can be null. 
> And null keys are not properly handled.
> According to parquet-format spec, keys of a Parquet {{MAP}} must not be null. 
>  Then I think the problem here is that, whether should we silently ignore 
> null keys when writing a map to a Parquet table like what Hive 0.14.0 does, 
> or throw an exception (probably a more descriptive one instead of the one 
> mentioned in the ticket description) like Hive 1.2.1.



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