[jira] [Updated] (PIG-2915) Builtin TOP udf is sensitive to null input bags

["Andy Schlaikjer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2915?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andy Schlaikjer updated PIG-2915:
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    Attachment: pig-null_safe_top.1.patch

Here's the patch mentioned in description.
                
> Builtin TOP udf is sensitive to null input bags
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-2915
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2915
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: internal-udfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.11
>            Reporter: Andy Schlaikjer
>         Attachments: pig-null_safe_top.1.patch
>
>
> TOP(max, sortField, inputBag) is sensitive to null inputBag arguments.
> In some cases it is preferable for a UDF to simply return null for null inputs e.g. to avoid conditional logic in a script.
> Most of the UDFs I write act this way, but TOP does not. This patch updates TOP to return null in the case where all input bags are null. Unit tests are included to confirm expected behavior.

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