Re: Reading null value from datasets

Hi Guido! If you use Scala, I would use an Option to represent nullable fields. That is a very explicit solution that marks which fields can be null, and also forces the program to handle this carefully. We are looking to add support for Java 8's Optional type as well for exactly that purpose.

Re: Reading null value from datasets

As far as I know the null support was removed from the Table API because its support was consistently supported with all operations. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2236 On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Shiti Saxena wrote: > For a similar problem where we

Re: Reading null value from datasets

Hi Guido, This depends on your use case but you may read those values as type String and treat them accordingly. Cheers, Max On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Guido wrote: > Hello, > I would like to ask if there were any particular ways to read or treat > null (e.g. Name,

Re: Reading null value from datasets

For a similar problem where we wanted to preserve and track null entries, we load the CSV as a DataSet[Array[Object]] and then transform it into DataSet[Row] using a custom RowSerializer( https://gist.github.com/Shiti/d0572c089cc08654019c) which handles null. The Table API(which supports null)