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Jeff Zhang commented on SPARK-11725:
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+1 for Option[T]
> Let UDF to handle null value
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>
> Key: SPARK-11725
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-11725
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SQL
> Reporter: Jeff Zhang
> Assignee: Wenchen Fan
> Priority: Blocker
> Labels: releasenotes
> Fix For: 1.6.0
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>
> I notice that currently spark will take the long field as -1 if it is null.
> Here's the sample code.
> {code}
> sqlContext.udf.register("f", (x:Int)=>x+1)
> df.withColumn("age2", expr("f(age)")).show()
> //////////////// Output ///////////////////////
> +----+-------+----+
> | age| name|age2|
> +----+-------+----+
> |null|Michael| 0|
> | 30| Andy| 31|
> | 19| Justin| 20|
> +----+-------+----+
> {code}
> I think for the null value we have 3 options
> * Use a special value to represent it (what spark does now)
> * Always return null if the udf input has null value argument
> * Let udf itself to handle null
> I would prefer the third option
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