viirya commented on a change in pull request #34025:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/34025#discussion_r710529665
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File path:
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/types/StructType.scala
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@@ -559,6 +559,42 @@ object StructType extends AbstractDataType {
case _ => dt
}
+ /**
+ * This works a little similarly to `merge`, but it does not actually merge
two DataTypes.
+ * This method just merges nullability.
+ */
+ private[sql] def mergeNullability(left: DataType, right: DataType): DataType
=
+ (left, right) match {
+ case (ArrayType(leftElementType, leftContainsNull),
+ ArrayType(rightElementType, rightContainsNull)) =>
+ ArrayType(
+ merge(leftElementType, rightElementType),
+ leftContainsNull || rightContainsNull)
+
+ case (MapType(leftKeyType, leftValueType, leftContainsNull),
+ MapType(rightKeyType, rightValueType, rightContainsNull)) =>
+ MapType(
+ merge(leftKeyType, rightKeyType),
+ merge(leftValueType, rightValueType),
+ leftContainsNull || rightContainsNull)
+
+ case (StructType(leftFields), StructType(rightFields)) =>
+ require(leftFields.size == rightFields.size, "To merge nullability," +
+ "two structs must have same number of fields.")
+
+ val newFields = leftFields.zip(rightFields).map {
Review comment:
Let me add test case for it.
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