Sorry - I forgot to include my stack trace too. Here it is: The program finished with the following exception:
org.apache.flink.client.program.ProgramInvocationException: The program execution failed: Job execution failed. at org.apache.flink.client.program.Client.runBlocking(Client.java:381) at org.apache.flink.client.program.Client.runBlocking(Client.java:355) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamContextEnvironment.execute(StreamContextEnvironment.java:65) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.scala.StreamExecutionEnvironment.execute(StreamExecutionEnvironment.scala:536) at com.me.flink.job.MyFlinkJob$.main(MyFlinkJob.scala:85) at com.me.flink.job.MyFlinkJob.main(MyFlinkJob.scala) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.callMainMethod(PackagedProgram.java:505) at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.invokeInteractiveModeForExecution(PackagedProgram.java:403) at org.apache.flink.client.program.Client.runBlocking(Client.java:248) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.executeProgramBlocking(CliFrontend.java:866) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.run(CliFrontend.java:333) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.parseParameters(CliFrontend.java:1192) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.main(CliFrontend.java:1243) Caused by: org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobExecutionException: Job execution failed. at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager$$anonfun$handleMessage$1$$anonfun$applyOrElse$7.apply$mcV$sp(JobManager.scala:717) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager$$anonfun$handleMessage$1$$anonfun$applyOrElse$7.apply(JobManager.scala:663) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager$$anonfun$handleMessage$1$$anonfun$applyOrElse$7.apply(JobManager.scala:663) at scala.concurrent.impl.Future$PromiseCompletingRunnable.liftedTree1$1(Future.scala:24) at scala.concurrent.impl.Future$PromiseCompletingRunnable.run(Future.scala:24) at akka.dispatch.TaskInvocation.run(AbstractDispatcher.scala:41) at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:401) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.pollAndExecAll(ForkJoinPool.java:1253) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1346) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Could not forward element to next operator at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.internals.KinesisDataFetcher.run(KinesisDataFetcher.java:150) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.FlinkKinesisConsumer.run(FlinkKinesisConsumer.java:285) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.run(StreamSource.java:78) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.SourceStreamTask.run(SourceStreamTask.java:56) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:225) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:559) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not forward element to next operator at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:354) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:337) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource$ManualWatermarkContext.collect(StreamSource.java:318) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.internals.ShardConsumerThread.run(ShardConsumerThread.java:141) Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.me.avro.MyAvroType cannot be cast to com.me.avro.MyAvroType at com.me.flink.job.MyFlinkJob$$anonfun$1.apply(MyFlinkJob.scala:61) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.scala.DataStream$$anon$1.extractAscendingTimestamp(DataStream.scala:746) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.functions.AscendingTimestampExtractor.extractTimestamp(AscendingTimestampExtractor.java:71) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.operators.TimestampsAndPeriodicWatermarksOperator.processElement(TimestampsAndPeriodicWatermarksOperator.java:63) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:351) ... 3 more On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Josh <jof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Till, > > Thanks for the reply! I see - yes it does sound very much like FLINK-1390. > > Please see my AvroDeserializationSchema implementation here: > http://pastebin.com/mK7SfBQ8 > > I think perhaps the problem is caused by this line: > val readerSchema = SpecificData.get().getSchema(classTag[T].runtimeClass) > > Looking at SpecificData, it contains a classCache which is a map of > strings to classes, similar to what's described in FLINK-1390. > > I'm not sure how to change my AvroDeserializationSchema to prevent this > from happening though! Do you have any ideas? > > Josh > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> Hi Josh, >> >> the error message you've posted usually indicates that there is a class >> loader issue. When you first run your program the class >> com.me.avro.MyAvroType will be first loaded (by the user code class >> loader). I suspect that this class is now somewhere cached (e.g. the avro >> serializer) and when you run your program a second time, then there is a >> new user code class loader which has loaded the same class and now you want >> to convert an instance of the first class into the second class. However, >> these two classes are not identical since they were loaded by different >> class loaders. >> >> In order to find the culprit, it would be helpful to see the full stack >> trace of the ClassCastException and the code of the >> AvroDeserializationSchema. I suspect that something similar to >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1390 is happening. >> >> Cheers, >> Till >> >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Josh <jof...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Currently I have to relaunch my Flink cluster every time I want to >>> upgrade/redeploy my Flink job, because otherwise I get a ClassCastException: >>> >>> java.lang.ClassCastException: com.me.avro.MyAvroType cannot be cast to >>> com.me.avro.MyAvroType >>> >>> It's related to MyAvroType which is an class generated from an Avro >>> schema. The ClassCastException occurs every time I redeploy the job without >>> killing the Flink cluster (even if there have been no changes to the >>> job/jar). >>> >>> I wrote my own AvroDeserializationSchema in Scala which does something a >>> little strange to get the avro type information (see below), and I'm >>> wondering if that's causing the problem when the Flink job creates an >>> AvroDeserializationSchema[MyAvroType]. >>> >>> Does anyone have any ideas? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Josh >>> >>> >>> >>> class AvroDeserializationSchema[T <: SpecificRecordBase :ClassTag] >>> extends DeserializationSchema[T] { >>> >>> ... >>> >>> private val avroType = classTag[T].runtimeClass.asInstanceOf[Class[T]] >>> >>> private val typeInformation = TypeExtractor.getForClass(avroType) >>> >>> ... >>> >>> override def getProducedType: TypeInformation[T] = typeInformation >>> >>> ... >>> >>> } >>> >> >> >