It appears that the issue is related to the KafkaCheckpointLogKey.java constructor. grouperFactoryClassName here is null. THe documentation indicates that task.name.grouper.factory config setting has a default value of org.apache.samza.container.grouper.task.GroupByContainerCountFactory. I wouldn't expect it to be null here.
If I specify GroupByContainerCountFactory for the task.name.grouper.factory in my properties file, I get a NoSuchMethodException: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.samza.container.grouper.task.GroupByContainerCount at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:427) at org.apache.samza.util.Util$.getObj(Util.scala:80) at org.apache.samza.coordinator.JobModelManager$.readJobModel(JobModelManager.scala:261) at org.apache.samza.coordinator.JobModelManager$.getJobModelManager(JobModelManager.scala:155) at org.apache.samza.coordinator.JobModelManager$.apply(JobModelManager.scala:117) at org.apache.samza.coordinator.JobModelManager.apply(JobModelManager.scala) at org.apache.samza.clustermanager.ClusterBasedJobCoordinator.buildJobModelManager(ClusterBasedJobCoordinator.java:241) at org.apache.samza.clustermanager.ClusterBasedJobCoordinator.<init>(ClusterBasedJobCoordinator.java:152) at org.apache.samza.clustermanager.ClusterBasedJobCoordinator.main(ClusterBasedJobCoordinator.java:297) Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.samza.container.grouper.task.GroupByContainerCount.<init>() at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:3082) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:412) ... 8 more Jeremiah Adams Software Engineer www.helixeducation.com <http://www.helixeducation.com/> Blog <http://www.helixeducation.com/blog/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/HelixEducation> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/HelixEducation> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/3609946> On 3/4/19, 2:48 PM, "Jeremiah Adams" <jad...@helixeducation.com> wrote: I am updating dependencies and moving from Samza V0.13.0 to V0.14.0. I develop locally using the grid app in the hello-samza project to spin up local yarn/zookeeper/kafka instances. Grid is running these versions: kafka_2.11-0.10.2.1.tgz hadoop-2.6.1.tar.gz zookeeper-3.4.3.tar.gz My job is now failing with the NPE below. anyone have ideas on the cause of this error? 2019-03-04 14:13:49 AsyncRunLoop [ERROR] Task Partition 0 commit failed java.lang.NullPointerException at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:782) at org.apache.samza.checkpoint.kafka.KafkaCheckpointLogKey.<init>(KafkaCheckpointLogKey.java:46) at org.apache.samza.checkpoint.kafka.KafkaCheckpointManager.writeCheckpoint(KafkaCheckpointManager.scala:136) at org.apache.samza.checkpoint.OffsetManager.writeCheckpoint(OffsetManager.scala:259) at org.apache.samza.container.TaskInstance.commit(TaskInstance.scala:205) at org.apache.samza.task.AsyncRunLoop$AsyncTaskWorker$5.run(AsyncRunLoop.java:494) at org.apache.samza.task.AsyncRunLoop$AsyncTaskWorker.commit(AsyncRunLoop.java:513) at org.apache.samza.task.AsyncRunLoop$AsyncTaskWorker.run(AsyncRunLoop.java:379) at org.apache.samza.task.AsyncRunLoop$AsyncTaskWorker.access$300(AsyncRunLoop.java:314) at org.apache.samza.task.AsyncRunLoop.runTasks(AsyncRunLoop.java:228) at org.apache.samza.task.AsyncRunLoop.run(AsyncRunLoop.java:157) at org.apache.samza.container.SamzaContainer.run(SamzaContainer.scala:728) at org.apache.samza.runtime.LocalContainerRunner.run(LocalContainerRunner.java:102) at org.apache.samza.runtime.LocalContainerRunner.main(LocalContainerRunner.java:147) 2019-03-04 14:13:49 AsyncRunLoop [ERROR] Caught throwable and stopping run loop Jeremiah Adams Software Engineer https://url.emailprotection.link/?ahfhEufaAWbezBrUFPG98ZJcterGfIerU3ZwsA3Gv_C0~<https://url.emailprotection.link/?a49H2rNGIIBtQOw6md8OcHp-qKE3Xn2gNiZ3dlqAeSDA~> Blog<https://url.emailprotection.link/?a49H2rNGIIBtQOw6md8OcHgFEZu-KYuiu8doY66NWwmmyWxz7kC-27Yfnbdgd2wyh5gjXUa6LMT_NRXsj1g1VVg~~> | Twitter<https://url.emailprotection.link/?a0Q7ct5_6cOdbJ86kpWB0zx6RbtgugTVC7lU_W7za50jLdZQGpLgVlR1V06zckSaM5oOKb6QBo46Qp9xt0Tt7Aw~~> | Facebook<https://url.emailprotection.link/?aAmyAO_nS_C1aDgBLeKyGTu0tksTt1_mn2PcS8KJXNJPM04iRHKgX96qGgENV-dMSER5wl8zDVRr3RsS0OmcF9A~~> | LinkedIn<https://url.emailprotection.link/?aanlcNI-cN74Gdz-TD332xAl6lHu7TRNICWoHUFjYf-KlBjrCGHoYR65b3rl-OyW10nWFv6hwYvUSoVHL4b3vGA~~>