Martin - I'll definitely file the bug and I will hopefully have some time at work to get a patch put together. I don't know anything about the binary format, but hopefully I can spot the differences via a hexdump and that will get me on the right track. Thanks for checking it out. ~Michael Ries
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Martin Kleppmann <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for reporting this. Your sample code seems to work correctly on > Ruby 1.9.3, but fails on Ruby 2.*. The data file that it's writing is > corrupted (the Java implementation of Avro can't read it either). So that > looks like a bug in Avro when writing data files on Ruby >=2.0. > > I just ran Avro's test suite on Ruby 2.0 and several tests failed. It > looks like you're the first person to run it on 2.0. Sorry about that! > > Would you mind filing a bug report at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO/ and attaching your example > from the gist? If you feel like submitting a patch, we'd appreciate it. If > not, I'll try to look into it soon. > > Martin > > On 23 Apr 2014, at 16:28, Michael Ries <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey. I'm trying to use the avro 1.7.5 gem (avoiding the 1.7.6 dependency > bug) and I can't seem to read data back out of my data files. I am getting > the error "avro-1.7.5/lib/avro/io.rb:46:in `byte!': undefined method > `unpack' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)". > > I put a more complete write up of what I am trying to do in this gist: > https://gist.github.com/hqmq/11193064 > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong? It seems to be always failing while > trying to decode the last record in the file. I get no luck on ruby 2.1.1 > or 2.0.0. > > I tried creating an avro file using the java client library > (members.from_java_client.avro) and the rubygem can read that file just > fine. It looks like the two files are different by just 16 bytes. > > >
