[AVRO-538] No way to raise errors in a Ruby IPC server such that they get returned as an avro error type

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: ruby

Environment

Mac OS X

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rael Dornfest
• Created: 05/May/10 23:22
• Updated: 26/Jul/19 18:46

Description

Raising an AvroError or even a subclass thereof doesn't simply return a nice clean Error to the client despite errors being specified in the schema.

Instead, the client sees:

.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/io.rb:46:in `byte!': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/io.rb:63:in `read_long'
.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/io.rb:379:in `read_union'
.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/io.rb:315:in `read_data'
.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/io.rb:281:in `read'
.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/ipc.rb:224:in `read_error'
.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/ipc.rb:213:in `read_call_response'
.../lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/avro-1.4.0.pre1/lib/avro/ipc.rb:113:in `request'