thanks guys: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-885
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/07/2011 01:17 PM, Yang wrote: > > but instead of NPE, could we make Avro throw a more explicit exception, > > so it's more descriptive? > > This is possible. It could be done back-compatibly by throwing a > subclass of NullPointerException, e.g., AvroNullValueException. The > logic in question is in GenericDatumWriter, where Avro builds an error > message indicating the path to the null in the data. > > Please file an issue in Jira for this. > > Doug >
