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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1064:
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If you intend a string to be nullable and are generating Java code from an Avro
schema, then the appropriate type is ["null", "string"], a union of null and
string.
> Encoder.writeString throws NullPointerException when the charSequence is null
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> Key: AVRO-1064
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1064
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.6.3
> Reporter: Kevin Zhao
> Attachments: Encoder.java.patch
>
>
> org.apache.avro.io.Encoder.writeString(CharSequence charSequence) throws
> NullPointerException when dealing with a javabean which has a null value in
> one of its fields, like the following one:
> Person person = new Person();
> person.setName("Kevin");
> person.setId(null);
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