[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-7653) Hive AvroSerDe does not support circular references in Schema

["Szehon Ho (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Szehon Ho commented on HIVE-7653:
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I almost forgot this one by now :)

Thanks,  pending tests on the new patch. +1

> Hive AvroSerDe does not support circular references in Schema
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-7653
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7653
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.13.1
>            Reporter: Sachin Goyal
>            Assignee: Sachin Goyal
>         Attachments: HIVE-7653.1.patch, HIVE-7653.2.patch, HIVE-7653.3.patch, HIVE-7653.4.patch, HIVE-7653.5.patch, HIVE-7653.6.patch
>
>
> Avro allows nullable circular references but Hive AvroSerDe does not.
> Example of circular references (passing in Avro but failing in AvroSerDe):
> {code}
> class AvroCycleParent {
>   AvroCycleChild child;
>   public AvroCycleChild getChild () {return child;}
>   public void setChild (AvroCycleChild child) {this.child = child;}
> }
> class AvroCycleChild {
>   AvroCycleParent parent;
>   public AvroCycleParent getParent () {return parent;}
>   public void setParent (AvroCycleParent parent) {this.parent = parent;}
> }
> {code}
> Due to this discrepancy, Hive is unable to read Avro records having circular-references. For some third-party code with such references, it becomes very hard to directly serialize it with Avro and use in Hive.
> I have a patch for this with a unit-test and I will submit it shortly.



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