Also, could you please let me know the array data base types that allow
null (in case VARCHAR ARRAY will not allow NULLs)?

Thanks,
Kathir

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Kathiresan S <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to insert null elements in an array type column?
>
> CREATE TABLE ARRAYTEST124 (ID VARCHAR, NAME VARCHAR ARRAY CONSTRAINT PK
> PRIMARY KEY(ID))
>
> UPSERT INTO ARRAYTEST124 (ID, NAME) VALUES('123',ARRAY['ABC','XYZ',null])
> UPSERT INTO ARRAYTEST124 (ID, NAME) VALUES('123',ARRAY['ABC',null,'XYZ'])
> UPSERT INTO ARRAYTEST124 (ID, NAME) VALUES('123',ARRAY[null,'ABC','XYZ'])
>
> I'm using phoenix 4.4.0-HBase-0.98-rc0
>
> I'm getting a null pointer exception, while trying to do the above upserts
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PVarchar.toObject(PVarchar.java:62)
> at org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PDataType.toObject(PDataType.java:979)
> at org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PDataType.toObject(PDataType.java:992)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.compile.ExpressionCompiler.visitLeave(ExpressionCompiler.java:1275)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.compile.ExpressionCompiler.visitLeave(ExpressionCompiler.java:142)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.parse.ArrayConstructorNode.accept(ArrayConstructorNode.java:43)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.compile.UpsertCompiler.compile(UpsertCompiler.java:733)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$ExecutableUpsertStatement.compilePlan(PhoenixStatement.java:525)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$ExecutableUpsertStatement.compilePlan(PhoenixStatement.java:513)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$2.call(PhoenixStatement.java:299)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$2.call(PhoenixStatement.java:292)
> at org.apache.phoenix.call.CallRunner.run(CallRunner.java:53)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement.executeMutation(PhoenixStatement.java:290)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement.execute(PhoenixStatement.java:222)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixPreparedStatement.execute(PhoenixPreparedStatement.java:173)
> at
> org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixPreparedStatement.execute(PhoenixPreparedStatement.java:178)
>
> Thanks,
> Kathir
>

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