[CRUNCH-103] null pointer exception with null avro collections

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Josh Wills
• Reporter: Joseph Adler
• Created: 29/Oct/12 21:01
• Updated: 16/Nov/12 20:06
• Resolved: 29/Oct/12 21:38

Description

If you attempt to create an avro record containing a collection, you may get a null pointer exception if the collection is null.

For example, suppose you had a ptype of Avros.tableOf(Avros.ints(), Avros.collections(Avros.ints())). When emitting the output records, you would get a null pointer exception if you emitted Pair.of(1,(Collection<Integer>)null)

(I'll submit a patch to fix)