[NIFI-7917] Upgrade avro to 1.10 in nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-services/nifi-record-serialization-services-bundle/nifi-record-serialization-services

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.17.0
• Assignee: Denes Arvay
• Reporter: Denes Arvay
• Created: 13/Oct/20 11:15
• Updated: 05/Sep/23 16:23
• Resolved: 05/Sep/23 16:23

Description

When trying to convert an avro record with ConvertRecord processor I bumped into the following exception:

 2020-10-12 15:04:57,017 ERROR [Timer-Driven Process Thread-1] o.a.n.processors.standard.ConvertRecord ConvertRecord[id=1e2b99d5-0175-1000-531f-0cf5a5ae8490] Failed to process StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=6b7d3df3-fc7d-4606-acfe-87fcafcdebc9,claim=StandardContentClaim [resourceClaim=StandardResourceClaim[id=1602529363240-1, container=default, section=1], offset=656, length=332],offset=0,name=avro_test_29092020104944.avro,size=332]; will route to failure: org.apache.avro.file.DataFileWriter$AppendWriteException: org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Unknown datum type org.apache.avro.JsonProperties$Null: org.apache.avro.JsonProperties$Null@24418f28
org.apache.avro.file.DataFileWriter$AppendWriteException: org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Unknown datum type org.apache.avro.JsonProperties$Null: org.apache.avro.JsonProperties$Null@24418f28
        at org.apache.avro.file.DataFileWriter.append(DataFileWriter.java:308)
        at org.apache.nifi.avro.WriteAvroResultWithSchema.writeRecord(WriteAvroResultWithSchema.java:61)
        at org.apache.nifi.serialization.AbstractRecordSetWriter.write(AbstractRecordSetWriter.java:59)
        at org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.AbstractRecordProcessor$1.process(AbstractRecordProcessor.java:153)
        at org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.StandardProcessSession.write(StandardProcessSession.java:2887)
        at org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.AbstractRecordProcessor.onTrigger(AbstractRecordProcessor.java:122)
        at org.apache.nifi.processor.AbstractProcessor.onTrigger(AbstractProcessor.java:27)
        at org.apache.nifi.controller.StandardProcessorNode.onTrigger(StandardProcessorNode.java:1162)
        at org.apache.nifi.controller.tasks.ConnectableTask.invoke(ConnectableTask.java:209)
        at org.apache.nifi.controller.scheduling.TimerDrivenSchedulingAgent$1.run(TimerDrivenSchedulingAgent.java:117)
        at org.apache.nifi.engine.FlowEngine$2.run(FlowEngine.java:110)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308)
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Unknown datum type org.apache.avro.JsonProperties$Null: org.apache.avro.JsonProperties$Null@24418f28
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.getSchemaName(GenericData.java:741)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.resolveUnion(GenericData.java:706)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.resolveUnion(GenericDatumWriter.java:192)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeWithoutConversion(GenericDatumWriter.java:110)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:73)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeField(GenericDatumWriter.java:153)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeRecord(GenericDatumWriter.java:143)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeWithoutConversion(GenericDatumWriter.java:105)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:73)
        at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:60)
        at org.apache.avro.file.DataFileWriter.append(DataFileWriter.java:302)
        ... 17 common frames omitted

This is caused by AVRO-1954 which has been fixed in avro 1.9.

I'd suggest upgrading the avro version in the org.apache.nifi.avro.WriteAvroResultWithSchema's module (nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-services/nifi-record-serialization-services-bundle/nifi-record-serialization-services) to the latest avro (1.10.0). Currently 1.8.1 is in use.

Issue Links

• Dependent: NIFI-7376 Avro Single-object encoding Support
• is related to: NIFI-7234 Upgrade Avro dependency from 1.8.1 to any newer version to resolve bugs in Avro
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4601