Invalid SchemaException for UUID while using AvroParquetWriter

Hi,

I am getting org.apache.parquet.schema.InvalidSchemaException: Cannot write a schema with an empty group: optional group id {} while I include a UUID field on my POJO object. Without UUID everything worked fine. I have seen Parquet suports UUID as part of [#PR-71] on 2.4 release.
But I am getting InvalidSchemaException on UUID. Is there anything that I am missing or its a known issue?

**My setup details:**

**gradle dependency :**

dependencies

{ compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter' compile group: 'org.projectlombok', name: 'lombok', version: '1.16.6' compile group: 'com.amazonaws', name: 'aws-java-sdk-bundle', version: '1.11.271' compile group: 'org.apache.parquet', name: 'parquet-avro', version: '1.10.1' compile group: 'org.apache.hadoop', name: 'hadoop-common', version: '3.1.1' compile group: 'org.apache.hadoop', name: 'hadoop-aws', version: '3.1.1' compile group: 'org.apache.hadoop', name: 'hadoop-client', version: '3.1.1' compile group: 'joda-time', name: 'joda-time' compile group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core', name: 'jackson-databind', version: '2.6.5' compile group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype', name: 'jackson-datatype-joda', version: '2.6.5' }

**Model used:**

@Data
public class Employee

{ private UUID id; private String name; private int age; private Address address; }

@Data
public class Address

{ private String streetName; private String city; private Zip zip; }

@Data
public class Zip

{ private int zip; private int ext; }

 

**My Serializer Code:**

public void serialize(List inputDataToSerialize, CompressionCodecName compressionCodecName) throws IOException {

Path path = new Path("s3a://parquetpoc/data_"+compressionCodecName+".parquet");
Class clazz = inputDataToSerialize.get(0).getClass();

try (ParquetWriter writer = AvroParquetWriter.builder(path)
.withSchema(ReflectData.AllowNull.get().getSchema(clazz)) // generate nullable fields
.withDataModel(ReflectData.get())
.withConf(parquetConfiguration)
.withCompressionCodec(compressionCodecName)
.withWriteMode(OVERWRITE)
.withWriterVersion(ParquetProperties.WriterVersion.PARQUET_2_0)
.build()) {

for (D input : inputDataToSerialize)

{ writer.write(input); }

}
}

private List **getInputDataToSerialize**(){
Address address = new Address();
address.setStreetName("Murry Ridge Dr");
address.setCity("Murrysville");
Zip zip = new Zip();
zip.setZip(15668);
zip.setExt(1234);

address.setZip(zip);

List employees = new ArrayList<>();

IntStream.range(0, 100000).forEach(i->

{ Employee employee = new Employee(); // employee.setId(UUID.randomUUID()); employee.setAge(20); employee.setName("Test"+i); employee.setAddress(address); employees.add(employee); }

);
return employees;
}

_\*\*Where generic Type D is Employee_

**Reporter**: [Felix Kizhakkel Jose](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=FelixKJose) / @FelixKJose

_{**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [PARQUET-1679](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1679). Please see the [migration documentation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2502) for further details.*}