Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazybinary.LazyBinaryStruct cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Object;

Unreachable code:
hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/StandardStructObjectInspector.java

// With Data
@Override
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public Object getStructFieldData(Object data, StructField fieldRef) {
if (data == null)

{ return null; }
// We support both List<Object> and Object[]
// so we have to do differently.
boolean isArray = ! (data instanceof List);
if (!isArray && !(data instanceof List)) { return data; }

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The if condition above translates to
if(!true && true) the code section cannot be reached,

this causes a lot of class cast exceptions while using Tez or ORC file formats or custom jsonsede, Strangely this happens only while using Tez.

Changed the code to
boolean isArray = data.getClass().isArray();
if (!isArray && !(data instanceof List)) { return data; }

Even then, lazystructs get passed as fields causing downstream cast exceptions like lazystruct cannot be cast to Text etc...

So I changed the method to something like this,

// With Data
@Override
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public Object getStructFieldData(Object data, StructField fieldRef) {
if (data == null) { return null; }

if (data instanceof LazyBinaryStruct)

{ data = ((LazyBinaryStruct) data).getFieldsAsList(); }

// We support both List<Object> and Object[]
// so we have to do differently.
boolean isArray = data.getClass().isArray();
if (!isArray && !(data instanceof List))

{ return data; }

This is causing arrayindexout of bounds exception and other typecast exceptions in object inspectors,

Please help,