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Nira Amit commented on SPARK-19656:
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I will not, but please consider documenting the correct way to work with the
newAPIHadoopFile in Java. It is not as easy as working with it in Scala and
I've been googling this enough to know that it is not clear to many Java
developers who try to use it.
> Can't load custom type from avro file to RDD with newAPIHadoopFile
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>
> Key: SPARK-19656
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-19656
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Question
> Components: Java API
> Affects Versions: 2.0.2
> Reporter: Nira Amit
>
> If I understand correctly, in scala it's possible to load custom objects from
> avro files to RDDs this way:
> {code}
> ctx.hadoopFile("/path/to/the/avro/file.avro",
> classOf[AvroInputFormat[MyClassInAvroFile]],
> classOf[AvroWrapper[MyClassInAvroFile]],
> classOf[NullWritable])
> {code}
> I'm not a scala developer, so I tried to "translate" this to java as best I
> could. I created classes that extend AvroKey and FileInputFormat:
> {code}
> public static class MyCustomAvroKey extends AvroKey<MyCustomClass>{};
> public static class MyCustomAvroReader extends
> AvroRecordReaderBase<MyCustomAvroKey, NullWritable, MyCustomClass> {
> // with my custom schema and all the required methods...
> }
> public static class MyCustomInputFormat extends
> FileInputFormat<MyCustomAvroKey, NullWritable>{
> @Override
> public RecordReader<MyCustomAvroKey, NullWritable>
> createRecordReader(InputSplit inputSplit, TaskAttemptContext
> taskAttemptContext) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
> return new MyCustomAvroReader();
> }
> }
> ...
> JavaPairRDD<MyCustomAvroKey, NullWritable> records =
> sc.newAPIHadoopFile("file:/path/to/datafile.avro",
> MyCustomInputFormat.class, MyCustomAvroKey.class,
> NullWritable.class,
> sc.hadoopConfiguration());
> MyCustomClass first = records.first()._1.datum();
> System.out.println("Got a result, some custom field: " +
> first.getSomeCustomField());
> {code}
> This compiles fine, but using a debugger I can see that `first._1.datum()`
> actually returns a `GenericData$Record` in runtime, not a `MyCustomClass`
> instance.
> And indeed, when the following line executes:
> {code}
> MyCustomClass first = records.first()._1.datum();
> {code}
> I get an exception:
> {code}
> java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData$Record
> cannot be cast to my.package.containing.MyCustomClass
> {code}
> Am I doing it wrong? Or is this not possible in Java?
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