[jira] [Updated] (FLINK-629) Add support for null values to the java api

["mustafa elbehery (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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mustafa elbehery updated FLINK-629:
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    Attachment: model.tar.gz

Hi, 

I have attached the whole POJOs I have created for the tweets. Its nested objects, starting by Tweet.Java class. 

Please let me know if you need more info.

> 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
>          Components: Java API
>            Reporter: Stephan Ewen
>            Assignee: Gyula Fora
>            Priority: Critical
>              Labels: github-import
>             Fix For: pre-apache
>
>         Attachments: model.tar.gz
>
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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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