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Fokko Driesprong reassigned AVRO-2383:
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Assignee: Raman Gupta
> Avro 1.9 applyAliases broken with self-referential records
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> Key: AVRO-2383
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2383
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.9.0
> Reporter: Raman Gupta
> Assignee: Raman Gupta
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.9.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-2383.patch
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> If a schema has a field with a self-referential record, the applyAliases
> function produces a NullPointerException.
> The problem appears to be that the value for the record put into "seen" has
> no fields, and then when the equality check is done, the `Schema.equals`
> method assumes that fields is not null. Making the `equals` method more
> defensive with null-checking "fields" solves the problem, as the `putAll`
> method adds the fields back in, but I'm not sure if that is actually the best
> fix.
> I will attach a patch with this fix.
> I'm marking this as a blocker for 1.9, as this behavior will cause a
> NullPointerException in this situation any time data is decoded where the
> writer and reader schema are different, and there are any aliases defined in
> the reader (even if these aliases are unrelated to the self-referential
> record).
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