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Janick Bernet commented on HIVE-12954: -------------------------------------- This also appears to be in Hive 1.0. The closely related 'split' function does handle NULL transparently, without an NPE. > NPE with str_to_map on null strings > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-12954 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12954 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.14.0, 1.0.0 > Reporter: Charles Pritchard > > Running str_to_map on a null string will return a NullPointerException. > Workaround is to use coalesce. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)