GeometryType(geom) triggered an exception

[ruanqizhen]

Expected behavior

When I call "GeometryType(geom)" to my table, it triggered a java.lang.NullPointerException exception. But "ST_GeometryType(geom)" works as expected.

It just crashed, so I couldn't find out which row caused the problem.

The track stack:

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/amazon/spark/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py", line 423, in show
    print(self._jdf.showString(n, int_truncate, vertical))
  File "/opt/amazon/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.9.3-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 1321, in __call__
    return_value = get_return_value(
  File "/opt/amazon/spark/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/sql/utils.py", line 111, in deco
    return f(*a, **kw)
  File "/opt/amazon/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.9.3-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py", line 326, in get_return_value
    raise Py4JJavaError(
py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o128.showString.
: org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 3 in stage 23.0 failed 4 times, most recent failure: Lost task 3.3 in stage 23.0 (TID 71) ([2600:1f13:b65:2706:d7b:30e2:5cb1:5cfa] executor 19): java.lang.NullPointerException

Driver stacktrace:
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.failJobAndIndependentStages(DAGScheduler.scala:2610)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.$anonfun$abortStage$2(DAGScheduler.scala:2559)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.$anonfun$abortStage$2$adapted(DAGScheduler.scala:2558)
	at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:62)
	at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray.foreach$(ResizableArray.scala:55)
	at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:49)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:2558)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1(DAGScheduler.scala:1200)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1$adapted(DAGScheduler.scala:1200)
	at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:407)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.handleTaskSetFailed(DAGScheduler.scala:1200)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.doOnReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:2798)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:2740)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:2729)
	at org.apache.spark.util.EventLoop$$anon$1.run(EventLoop.scala:49)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveExecutor.checkNoFailures(AdaptiveExecutor.scala:154)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveExecutor.doRun(AdaptiveExecutor.scala:88)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveExecutor.tryRunningAndGetFuture(AdaptiveExecutor.scala:66)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveExecutor.execute(AdaptiveExecutor.scala:57)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.$anonfun$getFinalPhysicalPlan$1(AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.scala:241)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession.withActive(SparkSession.scala:775)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.getFinalPhysicalPlan(AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.scala:240)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.withFinalPlanUpdate(AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.scala:509)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.executeCollect(AdaptiveSparkPlanExec.scala:471)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.collectFromPlan(Dataset.scala:3779)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.$anonfun$head$1(Dataset.scala:2769)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.$anonfun$withAction$1(Dataset.scala:3770)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.QueryPlanningTracker$.withTracker(QueryPlanningTracker.scala:107)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withTracker(SQLExecution.scala:232)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.executeQuery$1(SQLExecution.scala:110)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.$anonfun$withNewExecutionId$6(SQLExecution.scala:135)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.QueryPlanningTracker$.withTracker(QueryPlanningTracker.scala:107)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withTracker(SQLExecution.scala:232)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.$anonfun$withNewExecutionId$5(SQLExecution.scala:135)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withSQLConfPropagated(SQLExecution.scala:253)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.$anonfun$withNewExecutionId$1(SQLExecution.scala:134)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession.withActive(SparkSession.scala:775)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withNewExecutionId(SQLExecution.scala:68)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.withAction(Dataset.scala:3768)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.head(Dataset.scala:2769)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.take(Dataset.scala:2976)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.getRows(Dataset.scala:289)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.showString(Dataset.scala:328)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor157.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
	at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
	at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282)
	at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
	at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
	at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

Settings

Sedona version = 1.5

Apache Spark version = 3.2

Apache Flink version = ?

API type = Python

Python version = 3.10

Environment = Amazon Athena

[jiayuasu]

@ruanqizhen can you show me the full stacktrace? The one that is after Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException ?

[ruanqizhen]

@ruanqizhen can you show me the full stacktrace? The one that is after Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException ?

This is the entire stacktrace it returned. Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException is the last line.

[jiayuasu]

@ruanqizhen I think the GeometryType might have indeterministic behavior over invalid geometries. We need to further investigate this issue.

Can you run ST_IsValid on your geometry column? Is there any invalid geometries? If you remove those and run GeometryType again, do you still have the same problem?

[ruanqizhen]

@ruanqizhen I think the GeometryType might have indeterministic behavior over invalid geometries. We need to further investigate this issue.

Can you run ST_IsValid on your geometry column? Is there any invalid geometries? If you remove those and run GeometryType again, do you still have the same problem?

It is not likely caused by the invalid geometry, because I've called the ST_MakeValid() for all of the geometries.

[jiayuasu]

@ruanqizhen ST_MakeValid might not work for all cases. Any way to fix geometries is ST_Buffer(geom, 0).

If both of the method still cannot fix the issue, I think you can stick to ST_GeometryType. If you don't want the ST_ in the result, you can easily write a PySpark UDF to split the string by _ and only keep the second half.

[ruanqizhen]

@ruanqizhen ST_MakeValid might not work for all cases. Any way to fix geometries is ST_Buffer(geom, 0).

If both of the method still cannot fix the issue, I think you can stick to ST_GeometryType. If you don't want the ST_ in the result, you can easily write a PySpark UDF to split the string by _ and only keep the second half.

I'm using ST_GeometryType now. But I'm wondering if there is a way to find out which row caused the problem. Is there a way that I can "try", or skip the error, to let the query continue process other rows, so that I can then check which row was skipped.