[ORC-310] better error handling and lifecycle management for codecs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
• Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
• Created: 28/Feb/18 23:24
• Updated: 14/May/18 22:25
• Resolved: 15/Mar/18 16:45

Description

When there's a failure potentially involving the codec, the codec object may be left in bad state and should not be reused (esp. given that Hadoop codecs are brittle w.r.t. how they maintain state).
The codecs can be closed on error instead.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #222