Vladislav Pernin created FLINK-6061: ---------------------------------------
Summary: NPE on TypeSerializer.serialize with a RocksDBStateBackend calling state.entries in the open() function Key: FLINK-6061 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6061 Project: Flink Issue Type: Bug Components: DataStream API, State Backends, Checkpointing, Streaming Affects Versions: 1.3.0 Reporter: Vladislav Pernin With a default state (heap), the call to state.entries() "nicely fails" with a IllegalStateException : {noformat} Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No key set. at org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:195) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.heap.HeapMapState.entries(HeapMapState.java:188) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.UserFacingMapState.entries(UserFacingMapState.java:77) at org.apache.flink.Reproducer$FailingMapWithState.open(Reproducer.java:78) at org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils.openFunction(FunctionUtils.java:36) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.open(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:112) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.openAllOperators(StreamTask.java:376) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:252) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:670) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) {noformat} With a RocksDBStateBackend, it fails with a NPE : {noformat} Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.base.ShortSerializer.serialize(ShortSerializer.java:64) at org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.base.ShortSerializer.serialize(ShortSerializer.java:27) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.AbstractRocksDBState.writeKey(AbstractRocksDBState.java:181) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.AbstractRocksDBState.writeKeyWithGroupAndNamespace(AbstractRocksDBState.java:163) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.AbstractRocksDBState.writeCurrentKeyWithGroupAndNamespace(AbstractRocksDBState.java:148) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBMapState.serializeCurrentKeyAndNamespace(RocksDBMapState.java:263) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBMapState.iterator(RocksDBMapState.java:196) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBMapState.entries(RocksDBMapState.java:143) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.UserFacingMapState.entries(UserFacingMapState.java:77) at org.apache.flink.Reproducer$FailingMapWithState.open(Reproducer.java:78) at org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils.openFunction(FunctionUtils.java:36) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.open(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:112) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.openAllOperators(StreamTask.java:376) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:252) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:670) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) {noformat} The reason is that the record is null, because backend.getCurrentKey() is null (not yet set) in AbstractRocksDBState. This may also be the case for other RockDBState implementations. You can find the reproducer here based on 1.3-SNAPSHOT (needed for the MapState) : https://github.com/vpernin/flink-rocksdbstate-npe The reproducer is a non sense application. There is no MapState with TTL or expiration yet, so the goal is to try to shrink or expire the state at some interval. This could be done by iterating over the entries of the state and removing some of them. This could probably not be done in the open() method of a rich function. I also tried to implement CheckpointListener and to access the state content in notifyCheckpointComplete() method, but it fails to, I guess due to the asynchronous nature of the checkpoint. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)