Hello! We are working on a Flink application and came across this error. The "Record" class is a class generated from an Avro Schema. It's actually used by a second "Operation" class which doesn't seem to have this problem. Has anyone seen this before?
org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTaskException: Could not instantiate chained outputs. at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.graph.StreamConfig.getChainedOutputs(StreamConfig.java:324) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain.createOutputCollector(OperatorChain.java:292) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain.<init>(OperatorChain.java:133) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:267) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:704) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: java.io.InvalidClassException: com.xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx.Record; Serializable incompatible with Externalizable at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:711) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1885) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1751) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClass(ObjectInputStream.java:1716) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1556) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readArray(ObjectInputStream.java:1975) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1567) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:431) at java.util.ArrayList.readObject(ArrayList.java:797) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor19.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1170) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2178) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:431) at java.util.ArrayList.readObject(ArrayList.java:797) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor19.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1170) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2178) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:431) at java.util.ArrayList.readObject(ArrayList.java:797) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor19.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1170) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2178) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2287) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2211) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:431) at java.util.ArrayList.readObject(ArrayList.java:797) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor19.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:1170) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2178) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2069) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1573) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:431) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.deserializeObject(InstantiationUtil.java:566) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.deserializeObject(InstantiationUtil.java:552) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.deserializeObject(InstantiationUtil.java:540) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.readObjectFromConfig(InstantiationUtil.java:501) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.graph.StreamConfig.getChainedOutputs(StreamConfig.java:321) ... 5 more