[PIG-2330] Problem in org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage when storing a record with a single field.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: piggybank
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stan Rosenberg
• Created: 20/Oct/11 21:16
• Updated: 21/May/13 01:35

Description

Running the following script yields a RuntimeException. If the schema is changed to contain two fields, then A can be stored successfully.

REGISTER 'piggybank.jar'
REGISTER 'avro-1.5.4.jar'
REGISTER 'json-simple-1.1.jar'

A = load 'input.txt' AS (name1:chararray, name2:chararray);
B = foreach A generate $0;
store B into './output' using org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage(
'{"schema": {"type": "record", "name": "main", "fields": [{"name": "name", "type": ["null", "string"]}]}}');

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: PIG-3322 AVRO: AvroStorage give NPE on reading file with union as top level schema