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[jira] [Updated] (AVRO-1156) Avro responder swallows thrown Errors

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1156?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Mike Percy updated AVRO-1156:
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    Attachment: AVRO-1156-1.patch

Small patch so that if the Throwable is an Error, throw it as an Error.
                
> Avro responder swallows thrown Errors
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1156
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1156
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Mike Percy
>             Fix For: 1.7.2
>
>         Attachments: AVRO-1156-1.patch
>
>
> The Avro responder wraps caught Errors, such as OutOfMemoryErrors, in Exceptions and rethrows them. That's problematic because an Error should be allowed to crash the JVM, since it's often irrecoverable.

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