[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-19424) Wrong runtime type in RDD when reading from avro with custom serializer

["Nira Amit (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nira Amit commented on SPARK-19424:
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I posted this question in StackOverflow with a workaround I'm currently using to be able to load my data (basically loading GenericData.Record from the avro file and then rdd.map()'ing them to MyCustomClass).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41836851/wrong-runtime-type-in-rdd-when-reading-from-avro-with-custom-serializer

> Wrong runtime type in RDD when reading from avro with custom serializer
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-19424
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-19424
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Java API
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.2
>         Environment: Ubuntu, spark 2.0.2 prebuilt for hadoop 2.7
>            Reporter: Nira Amit
>
> I am trying to read data from avro files into an RDD using Kryo. My code compiles fine, but in runtime I'm getting a ClassCastException. Here is what my code does:
> {code}
> SparkConf conf = new SparkConf()...
> conf.set("spark.serializer", KryoSerializer.class.getCanonicalName());
> conf.set("spark.kryo.registrator", MyKryoRegistrator.class.getName());
> JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(conf);
> {code}
> Where MyKryoRegistrator registers a Serializer for MyCustomClass:
> {code}
> public void registerClasses(Kryo kryo) {
>     kryo.register(MyCustomClass.class, new MyCustomClassSerializer());
> }
> {code}
> Then, I read my datafile:
> {code}
> JavaPairRDD<MyCustomClass, NullWritable> records =
>                 sc.newAPIHadoopFile("file:/path/to/datafile.avro",
>                 AvroKeyInputFormat.class, MyCustomClass.class, NullWritable.class,
>                 sc.hadoopConfiguration());
> Tuple2<MyCustomClass, NullWritable> first = records.first();
> {code}
> This seems to work fine, but using a debugger I can see that while the RDD has a kClassTag of my.package.containing.MyCustomClass, the variable first contains a Tuple2<AvroKey, NullWritable>, not Tuple2<MyCustomClass, NullWritable>! And indeed, when the following line executes:
> {code}
> System.out.println("Got a result, custom field is: " + first._1.getSomeCustomField());
> {code}
> I get an exception:
> {code}
> java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroKey cannot be cast to my.package.containing.MyCustomClass
> {code}
> Am I doing something wrong? And even so, shouldn't I get a compilation error rather than a runtime error?



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