Github user chunhui-shi commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/594#discussion_r81617585 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/vector/complex/fn/JsonReader.java --- @@ -131,14 +139,33 @@ public void ensureAtLeastOneField(ComplexWriter writer) { PathSegment fieldPath = fieldPathList.get(j); if (emptyStatus.get(j)) { if (allTextMode) { - fieldWriter.varChar(fieldPath.getNameSegment().getPath()); + if (checkNullFields(fieldPathList)) { + for (String fieldName : nullableFields) { + fieldWriter.varChar(fieldName); + } + } else { + fieldWriter.varChar(fieldPath.getNameSegment().getPath()); + } } else { - fieldWriter.integer(fieldPath.getNameSegment().getPath()); + if (checkNullFields(fieldPathList)) { --- End diff -- Your fix is not targeted to change behavior under non-allTextMode, right? If this is the case, is this change in "else" needed? If you want to fix behavior under non-allTextMode as well, then you should also add unit test for this mode as well.
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