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[jira] [Created] (ARROW-5973) [Java] Variable width vectors' get
methods should return return null when the underlying data is null
Liya Fan created ARROW-5973:
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Summary: [Java] Variable width vectors' get methods should return return null when the underlying data is null
Key: ARROW-5973
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5973
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Java
Reporter: Liya Fan
Assignee: Liya Fan
For variable-width vectors (VarCharVector and VarBinaryVector), when the validity bit is not set, it means the underlying data is null, so the get method should return null.
However, the current implementation throws an IllegalStateException when NULL_CHECKING_ENABLED is set, or returns an empty array when the flag is clear.
Maybe the purpose of this design is to be consistent with fixed-width vectors. However, the scenario is different: fixed-width vectors (e.g. IntVector) throw an IllegalStateException, simply because the primitive types are non-nullable.
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