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[jira] [Updated] (FLINK-629) Add support for null values to the
java api
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-629?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Ufuk Celebi updated FLINK-629:
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Priority: Critical (was: Major)
> Add support for null values to the java api
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> Key: FLINK-629
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-629
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Stephan Ewen
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: github-import
> Fix For: pre-apache
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> Currently, many runtime operations fail when encountering a null value. Tuple serialization should allow null fields.
> I suggest to add a method to the tuples called `getFieldNotNull()` which throws a meaningful exception when the accessed field is null. That way, we simplify the logic of operators that should not dead with null fields, like key grouping or aggregations.
> Even though SQL allows grouping and aggregating of null values, I suggest to exclude this from the java api, because the SQL semantics of aggregating null fields are messy.
> ---------------- Imported from GitHub ----------------
> Url: https://github.com/stratosphere/stratosphere/issues/629
> Created by: [StephanEwen|https://github.com/StephanEwen]
> Labels: enhancement, java api,
> Milestone: Release 0.5.1
> Created at: Wed Mar 26 00:27:49 CET 2014
> State: open
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