Github user MikeThomsen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2256#discussion_r150412256
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nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hbase-bundle/nifi-hbase-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/hbase/PutHBaseRecord.java
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@@ -127,6 +127,18 @@
.defaultValue("1000")
.build();
+ protected static final AllowableValue NULL_FIELD_EMPTY = new
AllowableValue("empty-string", "Empty String", "Use an empty string");
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My original intent was to make it easier on people writing Spark or MR jobs
against HBase so they could assume in this case that the cell is there but has
something akin to a null value. However, the points you made here do stand and
should be added.
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