Github user jacques-n commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/228#discussion_r43717313
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exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/vector/complex/fn/JsonReader.java
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@@ -93,13 +93,15 @@ public void ensureAtLeastOneField(ComplexWriter writer)
{
if (!atLeastOneWrite) {
// if we had no columns, create one empty one so we can return some
data for count purposes.
SchemaPath sp = columns.get(0);
- PathSegment root = sp.getRootSegment();
+ PathSegment fieldPath = sp.getRootSegment();
BaseWriter.MapWriter fieldWriter = writer.rootAsMap();
- while (root.getChild() != null && !root.getChild().isArray()) {
- fieldWriter = fieldWriter.map(root.getNameSegment().getPath());
- root = root.getChild();
+ while (fieldPath.getChild() != null && !
fieldPath.getChild().isArray()) {
+ fieldWriter =
fieldWriter.map(fieldPath.getNameSegment().getPath());
+ fieldPath = fieldPath.getChild();
+ }
+ if (fieldWriter.isEmptyMap()) {
--- End diff --
The change I was focused on was the addition of the
fieldWriter.isEmptyMap() condition. Why was this condition added to the code?
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