Brock Noland created AVRO-1240:
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             Summary: SpecificDataumReader.next() can return a 
GenericData.Record resulting in a ClassCastException
                 Key: AVRO-1240
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1240
             Project: Avro
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: java
    Affects Versions: 1.7.3
            Reporter: Brock Noland
            Assignee: Brock Noland


The following reasonable code:

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    DatumReader<Test> reader = new SpecificDatumReader<Test>(Test.class); 
    DataFileReader<Test> dataFileReader = new DataFileReader<Test>(file, 
reader); 
    Test datum = null;
    while(dataFileReader.hasNext()) { 
      datum = dataFileReader.next(datum); 
      System.out.println(datum); 
    }
{noformat}

Can result in a runtime exception:

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$ java -cp avro-1.7.3.jar:$(hadoop classpath) org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar 
target/avro-example-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar Sample target/test-file 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: 
org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData$Record cannot be cast to Test
        at Sample.main(Sample.java:27)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:208)
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when the jar containing the specific class (Test in my example) is loaded from 
a different classloader than the avro jar itself. This occurs when run via the 
hadoop jar command but could occur in web containers or other locations as well.

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