[jira] [Updated] (CRUNCH-147) Pipeline.writeTextFile should work with Avro data

["Dave Beech (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-147?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Dave Beech updated CRUNCH-147:
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    Attachment: CRUNCH-147.patch

It looks like this can be made to work by removing the WritableTypeFamily.as(..) call that wraps the collection's type (see patch). 

I haven't run any integration testing and I would expect there to have been a good reason to have this call in the first place, so please feel free to tell me this is a bad idea! 
                
> Pipeline.writeTextFile should work with Avro data
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CRUNCH-147
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-147
>             Project: Crunch
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 0.4.0
>            Reporter: Dave Beech
>            Assignee: Josh Wills
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: CRUNCH-147.patch
>
>
> I'd find it useful to be able to dump Avro collections to a text file (as json) during development to have a quick look inside without having to mess around with avro-tools. The current Pipeline.writeTextFile method expects Writables and gives the following error when you attempt to pass Avro to it:
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: class my.avro.Record
> 	at java.lang.Class.asSubclass(Class.java:3018)
> 	at org.apache.crunch.types.writable.Writables.records(Writables.java:250)
> 	at org.apache.crunch.types.writable.WritableTypeFamily.records(WritableTypeFamily.java:86)
> 	at org.apache.crunch.types.PTypeUtils.convert(PTypeUtils.java:61)
> 	at org.apache.crunch.types.writable.WritableTypeFamily.as(WritableTypeFamily.java:135)

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