Thanks Scott, looking at the raw data it seems to have been a truncated record 
due to UTF problems.

Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com

On Mar 23, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Scott Carey <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> It appears to be reading a union index and failing in there somehow.  If it 
> did not have any of the pig AvroStorage stuff in there I could tell you more.
> 
> What does avro-tools.jar 's 'tojson' tool do?  (java –jar 
> avro-tools-1.6.3.jar tojson <file> | your_favorite_text_reader)  
> What version of Avro is the java stack trace below?
> 
> 
> On 3/23/12 7:01 PM, "Russell Jurney" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a problem record I've written in Avro that crashes anything which 
> tries to read it :(
> 
> Can anyone make sense of these errors?
> 
> The exception in Pig/AvroStorage is this:
> 
> java.io.IOException: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 64
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage.getNext(AvroStorage.java:275)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigRecordReader.nextKeyValue(PigRecordReader.java:187)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$NewTrackingRecordReader.nextKeyValue(MapTask.java:532)
>       at 
> org.apache.avro.io.parsing.Symbol$Alternative.getSymbol(Symbol.java:364)
>       at 
> org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.doAction(ResolvingDecoder.java:229)
>       at org.apache.avro.io.parsing.Parser.advance(Parser.java:88)
>       at 
> org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.readIndex(ResolvingDecoder.java:206)
>       at 
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:142)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.PigAvroDatumReader.readRecord(PigAvroDatumReader.java:67)
>       at 
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:138)
>       at 
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:129)
>       at org.apache.avro.file.DataFileStream.next(DataFileStream.java:233)
>       at org.apache.avro.file.DataFileStream.next(DataFileStream.java:220)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.PigAvroRecordReader.getCurrentValue(PigAvroRecordReader.java:80)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage.getNext(AvroStorage.java:273)
>       ... 7 more
> 
> When reading the record in Python:  
> 
> File "/me/Collecting-Data/src/python/cat_avro", line 21, in <module>
>     for record in df_reader:
>   File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/avro-_AVRO_VERSION_-py2.6.egg/avro/datafile.py",
>  line 354, in next
>     datum = self.datum_reader.read(self.datum_decoder) 
>   File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/avro-_AVRO_VERSION_-py2.6.egg/avro/io.py",
>  line 445, in read
>     return self.read_data(self.writers_schema, self.readers_schema, decoder)
>   File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/avro-_AVRO_VERSION_-py2.6.egg/avro/io.py",
>  line 490, in read_data
>     return self.read_record(writers_schema, readers_schema, decoder)
>   File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/avro-_AVRO_VERSION_-py2.6.egg/avro/io.py",
>  line 690, in read_record
>     field_val = self.read_data(field.type, readers_field.type, decoder)
>   File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/avro-_AVRO_VERSION_-py2.6.egg/avro/io.py",
>  line 488, in read_data
>     return self.read_union(writers_schema, readers_schema, decoder)
>   File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/avro-_AVRO_VERSION_-py2.6.egg/avro/io.py",
>  line 650, in read_union
>     raise SchemaResolutionException(fail_msg, writers_schema, readers_schema)
> avro.io.SchemaResolutionException: Can't access branch index 64 for union 
> with 2 branches
> 
> When reading the record in Ruby:
> 
> /Users/peyomp/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/avro-1.6.1/lib/avro/io.rb:298:in 
> `read_data': Writer's schema  and Reader's schema ["string","null"] do not 
> match. (Avro::IO::SchemaMatchException)
> 
> -- 
> Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney [email protected] datasyndrome.com

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