Robert Metzger created FLINK-1391: ------------------------------------- Summary: Kryo fails to properly serialize avro collection types Key: FLINK-1391 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1391 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 0.8, 0.9 Reporter: Robert Metzger
Before FLINK-610, Avro was the default generic serializer. Now, special types coming from Avro are handled by Kryo .. which seems to cause errors like: {code} Exception in thread "main" org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData$Array.add(GenericData.java:200) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.CollectionSerializer.read(CollectionSerializer.java:116) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.CollectionSerializer.read(CollectionSerializer.java:22) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.readClassAndObject(Kryo.java:761) at org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.runtime.KryoSerializer.deserialize(KryoSerializer.java:143) at org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.runtime.KryoSerializer.deserialize(KryoSerializer.java:148) at org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.runtime.PojoSerializer.deserialize(PojoSerializer.java:244) at org.apache.flink.runtime.plugable.DeserializationDelegate.read(DeserializationDelegate.java:56) at org.apache.flink.runtime.io.network.serialization.AdaptiveSpanningRecordDeserializer.getNextRecord(AdaptiveSpanningRecordDeserializer.java:71) at org.apache.flink.runtime.io.network.channels.InputChannel.readRecord(InputChannel.java:189) at org.apache.flink.runtime.io.network.gates.InputGate.readRecord(InputGate.java:176) at org.apache.flink.runtime.io.network.api.MutableRecordReader.next(MutableRecordReader.java:51) at org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.util.ReaderIterator.next(ReaderIterator.java:53) at org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.DataSinkTask.invoke(DataSinkTask.java:170) at org.apache.flink.runtime.execution.RuntimeEnvironment.run(RuntimeEnvironment.java:257) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)