Github user HuJiayin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/7115#discussion_r35291770
--- Diff:
unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/types/UTF8String.java ---
@@ -628,4 +634,93 @@ public int hashCode() {
}
return result;
}
+
+ /**
+ * Encodes a string into a Soundex value. Soundex is an encoding used to
relate similar names,
+ * but can also be used as a general purpose scheme to find word with
similar phonemes.
+ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
+ */
+ public UTF8String soundex() {
+ if (numBytes == 0) {
+ return UTF8String.fromBytes(new byte[0]);
--- End diff --
EMPTY_UTF8 = UTF8String.fromString(""); Use this or the old one will not
impact the functionality and performance. Chenghao, function, logic bugs and
major performance degradation are the 3 most important things in the software
development. Even if we care about the Nic like blank string, lines at this
time, the code will be rewritten in the future. We just need reformat code
before release automatically by a code in build.
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