[HADOOP-172] rpc doesn't handle returning null for a String[]

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: ipc
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 28/Apr/06 00:15
• Updated: 03/Aug/06 17:46
• Resolved: 28/Apr/06 03:58

Description

The job tracker gets errors in returning the result from pollForTaskWithClosedJob

060427 100434 Served: pollForTaskWithClosedJob 0
declaredClass = [Ljava.lang.String;
instance class = org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable
at org.apache.hadoop.io.ObjectWritable.writeObject(ObjectWritable.java:95)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.ObjectWritable.write(ObjectWritable.java:65)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:230)