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Michael Wong commented on FLINK-4506:
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Ok, but let's forget about what was there before for the moment. What is the 
desired behavior? What is the most likely setting people would want? My bet is 
allowNullValues=true.

> CsvOutputFormat defaults allowNullValues to false, even though doc and 
> declaration says true
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-4506
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4506
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Batch Connectors and Input/Output Formats, Documentation
>            Reporter: Michael Wong
>            Assignee: Kirill Morozov
>            Priority: Minor
>
> In the constructor, it has this
> {code}
> this.allowNullValues = false;
> {code}
> But in the setAllowNullValues() method, the doc says the allowNullValues is 
> true by default. Also, in the declaration of allowNullValues, the value is 
> set to true. It probably makes the most sense to change the constructor.
> {code}
>       /**
>        * Configures the format to either allow null values (writing an empty 
> field),
>        * or to throw an exception when encountering a null field.
>        * <p>
>        * by default, null values are allowed.
>        *
>        * @param allowNulls Flag to indicate whether the output format should 
> accept null values.
>        */
>       public void setAllowNullValues(boolean allowNulls) {
>               this.allowNullValues = allowNulls;
>       }
> {code}



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