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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3140:
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Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1465#discussion_r49438915
--- Diff:
flink-staging/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/api/table/typeinfo/NullAwareComparator.scala
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+package org.apache.flink.api.table.typeinfo
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeComparator
+import org.apache.flink.core.memory.{MemorySegment, DataOutputView,
DataInputView}
+
+/**
+ * Null-aware comparator that wraps a comparator which does not support
null references.
+ */
+class NullAwareComparator[T](
+ val wrappedComparator: TypeComparator[T],
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We must ensure that the `wrappedComparator` is for atomic types only.
Wrapping will not work for composite types!
> NULL value data layout in Row Serializer/Comparator
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-3140
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3140
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Table API
> Reporter: Chengxiang Li
> Assignee: Timo Walther
>
> To store/materialize NULL value in Row objects, we should need new Row
> Serializer/Comparator which is aware of NULL value fields.
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