[jira] [Closed] (FLINK-4640) Serialization of the initialValue of a Fold on WindowedStream fails

["Stephan Ewen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4640?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stephan Ewen closed FLINK-4640.
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> Serialization of the initialValue of a Fold on WindowedStream fails
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-4640
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4640
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Streaming
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.0, 1.1.2
>            Reporter: Fabian Hueske
>            Assignee: Stephan Ewen
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 1.2.0, 1.1.3
>
>
> The following program
> {code}
> DataStream<Tuple2<String, Long>> src = env.fromElements(new Tuple2<String, Long>("a", 1L));
> src
>   .keyBy(1)
>   .timeWindow(Time.minutes(5))
>   .fold(TreeMultimap.<Long, String>create(), new FoldFunction<Tuple2<String, Long>, TreeMultimap<Long, String>>() {
>     @Override
>     public TreeMultimap<Long, String> fold(
>         TreeMultimap<Long, String> topKSoFar, 
>         Tuple2<String, Long> itemCount) throws Exception 
>     {
>       String item = itemCount.f0;
>       Long count = itemCount.f1;
>       topKSoFar.put(count, item);
>       if (topKSoFar.keySet().size() > 10) {
>         topKSoFar.removeAll(topKSoFar.keySet().first());
>       }
>       return topKSoFar;
>     }
> });
> {code}
> throws this exception
> {quote}
> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not add value to folding state.
> 	at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.memory.MemFoldingState.add(MemFoldingState.java:91)
> 	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.operators.windowing.WindowOperator.processElement(WindowOperator.java:382)
> 	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.io.StreamInputProcessor.processInput(StreamInputProcessor.java:176)
> 	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OneInputStreamTask.run(OneInputStreamTask.java:66)
> 	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:266)
> 	at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:584)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at com.google.common.collect.AbstractMapBasedMultimap.put(AbstractMapBasedMultimap.java:192)
> 	at com.google.common.collect.AbstractSetMultimap.put(AbstractSetMultimap.java:121)
> 	at com.google.common.collect.TreeMultimap.put(TreeMultimap.java:78)
> 	at org.apache.flink.streaming.examples.wordcount.WordCount$1.fold(WordCount.java:115)
> 	at org.apache.flink.streaming.examples.wordcount.WordCount$1.fold(WordCount.java:109)
> 	at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.memory.MemFoldingState.add(MemFoldingState.java:85)
> 	... 6 more
> {quote}
> The exception is caused because the initial value was not correctly deserialized and is {{null}}.
> The user reporting this issue said that using the same {{FoldFunction}} on a {{KeyedStream}} (without a window) works fine.
> I tracked the problem down to the serialization of the {{StateDescriptor}}, i.e., the {{writeObject()}} and {{readObject()}} methods. The methods use Flink's TypeSerializers to serialize the default value. In case of the {{TreeMultiMap}} this is the {{KryoSerializer}} which fails to read the serialized data for some reason.
> A quick workaround to solve this issue would be to check if the default value implements {{Serializable}} and use Java Serialization in this case. However, it would be good to track the root cause of this problem.



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