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Hyukjin Kwon reassigned SPARK-43051:
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Assignee: Parth Upadhyay
> Allow emitting zero values when deserializing protobuf messages
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> Key: SPARK-43051
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-43051
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Protobuf
> Affects Versions: 3.4.0
> Reporter: Parth Upadhyay
> Assignee: Parth Upadhyay
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently, when deserializing protobufs using from_protobuf, fields that are
> not explicitly present in the serialized message are deserialized as null in
> the resulting struct. However this includes singular proto3 scalars set
> explicitly to their default values, as they will [not appear
> in|https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/field_presence/#presence-in-tag-value-stream-wire-format-serialization]
> the serialized protobuf.
> For example, given a message format like
>
> {code:java}
> syntax = "proto3";
> message Person {
> string name = 1;
> int64 age = 2;
> optional string middle_name = 3;
> optional int64 salary = 4;
> }
> {code}
> and an example message like
>
> {code:java}
> SearchRequest(age = 0, middle_name = ""){code}
> the result from calling from_protobuf on the serialized form of the above
> message would be
>
> {code:java}
> {"name": null, "age": null, "middle_name": "", "salary": null}{code}
>
> It can be useful to deserialize these fields as their defaults, e.g.:
>
> {code:java}
> {"name": "", "age": 0, "middle_name": "", "salary": null}{code}
>
> This behavior also exists in other major libraries, e.g.
> * java's jsonformat `includingDefaultValues`
> [https://protobuf.dev/reference/java/api-docs/com/google/protobuf/util/JsonFormat.Printer.html#includingDefaultValueFields--]
> * golang's jsonpb `emitDefaults`
> [https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/golang/protobuf/jsonpb#Marshaler]
> I propose extending the spark-protobuf library to support this behavior.
>
> PR: [https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/40686]
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