[HADOOP-523] TextInputformat .isSplittable() fails with NullPointerException with hadoop 0.6.1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.1
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Sanjay Dahiya
• Created: 12/Sep/06 16:39
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:51
• Resolved: 12/Sep/06 19:42

Description

With hadoop 0.6.1, TextInputFormat fails with NullPointerException, causing Job with fail.

TextInputFormat.configure() is not called to initialize compressionCodecs and following method throws NullPointerException.

protected boolean isSplitable(FileSystem fs, Path file)

{ return compressionCodecs.getCodec(file) == null; }

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat.isSplitable(TextInputFormat.java:37)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InputFormatBase.getSplits(InputFormatBase.java:149)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.initTasks(JobInProgress.java:129)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker$JobInitThread.run(JobTracker.java:314)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)