Chaoyu Tang created HIVE-5320: --------------------------------- Summary: Querying a table with nested struct type over JSON data results in errors Key: HIVE-5320 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5320 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Serializers/Deserializers Affects Versions: 0.9.0 Reporter: Chaoyu Tang
Querying a table with nested_struct datatype like == create table nest_struct_tbl (col1 string, col2 array<struct<a1:string, a2:array<struct<b1:int, b2:string, b3:string>>>>) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.openx.data.jsonserde.JsonSerDe'; == over JSON data cause errors including java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException or corrupted data. The JsonSerDe used is json-serde-1.1.4.jar/json-serde-1.1.4-jar-dependencies.jar. The cause is that the method: public List<Object> getStructFieldsDataAsList(Object o) in JsonStructObjectInspector.java returns a list referencing to a static arraylist "values" So the local variable 'list' in method serialize of Hive LazySimpleSerDe class is returned with same reference in its recursive calls and its element values are kept on being overwritten in the case STRUCT. Solutions: 1. Fix in JsonSerDe, and change the field 'values' in java.org.openx.data.jsonserde.objectinspector.JsonStructObjectInspector.java to instance scope. Filed a ticket to JSonSerDe (https://github.com/rcongiu/Hive-JSON-Serde/issues/31) 2. Ideally, in the method serialize of class LazySimpleSerDe, we should defensively save a copy of a list resulted from list = soi.getStructFieldsDataAsList(obj) in which case the soi is the instance of JsonStructObjectInspector, so that the recursive calls of serialize can work properly regardless of the extended SerDe implementation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira