[jira] Updated: (HIVE-1011) GenericUDTFExplode() throws NPE when given nulls

["Carl Steinbach (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Carl Steinbach updated HIVE-1011:
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    Fix Version/s: 0.6.0

> GenericUDTFExplode() throws NPE when given nulls
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1011
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1011
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Paul Yang
>            Assignee: Paul Yang
>             Fix For: 0.6.0
>
>         Attachments: HIVE-1011.1.patch
>
>
> When explode() is called on rows where the array column is null, a null pointer exception is thrown.
> For example consider having  a table named test with the following rows
> {code}
> key     value
> 1       [1,2,3]
> 2       null 
> {code}
> Then running the query
> {code}
> SELECT explode(value) AS myCol FROM test;
> or
> SELECT * FROM test LATERAL VIEW explode(value) myTab AS myCol;
> {code}
> will throw a null pointer exception when explode() gets the null value from the 2nd row.
> Possible options are:
> 1. Treat null values as an error and make the user fix null values in data
> 2. explode(null) generates a null output value.
> 3. explode(null) generates no output values
> #2 means that explode(null) and explode(array(null)) will behave identically. Because of that, I think #3 makes the most sense.

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