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Re: readFields() throws a NullPointerExceptionJeff Zhang 2010-09-20, 01:34
Do you have a no-argument constructor for your customer class and in
the constructor do you do initialize the members ? Otherwise these
members in your customer class will be null.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How are you constructing your WritableDeserializer? The reason that I
> ask is that on the line you are seeing an error:
>
> writable.readFields(dataIn);
>
> The only thing that could throw a null pointer exception is if writable
> was null. Writable is constructed thusly:
>
> public Writable deserialize(Writable w) throws IOException {
> Writable writable;
> if (w == null) {
> writable
> = (Writable) ReflectionUtils.newInstance(writableClass,
> getConf());
> } else {
> writable = w;
> }
> writable.readFields(dataIn);
> return writable;
> }
>
> So I suspect that you are passing null as the argument to Deserialize
> and when constructing your WritableDeserializer, you are passing null as
> the second argument (Class<?> c). This would result in writable being
> null, and you'd see that error.
>
> In one of these two cases you must define your Writable class.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rakesh Ramakrishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 1:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: readFields() throws a NullPointerException
>
> I have a simple map-reduce program in which my map and reduce primitives
> look like this
>
> map(K,V) = (Text, OutputAggregator)
> reduce(Text, OutputAggregator) = (Text,Text)
>
> The important point is that from my map function I emit an object of
> type
> OutputAggregator which is a custom class that implements the Writable
> interface. However, my reduce fails with the following exception. More
> specifically, the readFieds() function is throwing an exception. Any
> clue
> why ? I use hadoop 0.18.3
>
>
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO jvm.JvmMetrics: Initializing JVM Metrics with
> processName=JobTracker, sessionId> 10/09/19 04:04:59 WARN mapred.JobClient: Use GenericOptionsParser for
> parsing the arguments. Applications should implement Tool for the
> same.
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.JobClient: Running job: job_local_0001
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: numReduceTasks: 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: io.sort.mb = 100
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: data buffer = 79691776/99614720
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: record buffer = 262144/327680
> Length = 10
> 10
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: Starting flush of map output
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: bufstart = 0; bufend = 231;
> bufvoid = 99614720
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: kvstart = 0; kvend = 10; length > 327680
> gl_books
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 WARN mapred.LocalJobRunner: job_local_0001
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.myorg.OutputAggregator.readFields(OutputAggregator.java:46)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization$WritableDeserializ
> er.deserialize(WritableSerialization.java:67)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization$WritableDeserializ
> er.deserialize(WritableSerialization.java:40)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task$ValuesIterator.readNextValue(Task.java:751
> )
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task$ValuesIterator.next(Task.java:691)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task$CombineValuesIterator.next(Task.java:770)
> at org.myorg.xxxParallelizer$Reduce.reduce(xxxParallelizer.java:117)
> at org.myorg.xxxParallelizer$Reduce.reduce(xxxParallelizer.java:1)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.combineAndSpill(MapTask
Best Regards
Jeff Zhang
the constructor do you do initialize the members ? Otherwise these
members in your customer class will be null.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How are you constructing your WritableDeserializer? The reason that I
> ask is that on the line you are seeing an error:
>
> writable.readFields(dataIn);
>
> The only thing that could throw a null pointer exception is if writable
> was null. Writable is constructed thusly:
>
> public Writable deserialize(Writable w) throws IOException {
> Writable writable;
> if (w == null) {
> writable
> = (Writable) ReflectionUtils.newInstance(writableClass,
> getConf());
> } else {
> writable = w;
> }
> writable.readFields(dataIn);
> return writable;
> }
>
> So I suspect that you are passing null as the argument to Deserialize
> and when constructing your WritableDeserializer, you are passing null as
> the second argument (Class<?> c). This would result in writable being
> null, and you'd see that error.
>
> In one of these two cases you must define your Writable class.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rakesh Ramakrishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 1:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: readFields() throws a NullPointerException
>
> I have a simple map-reduce program in which my map and reduce primitives
> look like this
>
> map(K,V) = (Text, OutputAggregator)
> reduce(Text, OutputAggregator) = (Text,Text)
>
> The important point is that from my map function I emit an object of
> type
> OutputAggregator which is a custom class that implements the Writable
> interface. However, my reduce fails with the following exception. More
> specifically, the readFieds() function is throwing an exception. Any
> clue
> why ? I use hadoop 0.18.3
>
>
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO jvm.JvmMetrics: Initializing JVM Metrics with
> processName=JobTracker, sessionId> 10/09/19 04:04:59 WARN mapred.JobClient: Use GenericOptionsParser for
> parsing the arguments. Applications should implement Tool for the
> same.
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to
> process : 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.JobClient: Running job: job_local_0001
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: numReduceTasks: 1
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: io.sort.mb = 100
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: data buffer = 79691776/99614720
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: record buffer = 262144/327680
> Length = 10
> 10
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: Starting flush of map output
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: bufstart = 0; bufend = 231;
> bufvoid = 99614720
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 INFO mapred.MapTask: kvstart = 0; kvend = 10; length > 327680
> gl_books
> 10/09/19 04:04:59 WARN mapred.LocalJobRunner: job_local_0001
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.myorg.OutputAggregator.readFields(OutputAggregator.java:46)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization$WritableDeserializ
> er.deserialize(WritableSerialization.java:67)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization$WritableDeserializ
> er.deserialize(WritableSerialization.java:40)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task$ValuesIterator.readNextValue(Task.java:751
> )
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task$ValuesIterator.next(Task.java:691)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task$CombineValuesIterator.next(Task.java:770)
> at org.myorg.xxxParallelizer$Reduce.reduce(xxxParallelizer.java:117)
> at org.myorg.xxxParallelizer$Reduce.reduce(xxxParallelizer.java:1)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.combineAndSpill(MapTask
Best Regards
Jeff Zhang
