I get the same error for fields which are not null unfortunately.
Can't translate null value for field
StructField(density,DecimalType(4,2),true)
On Apr 21, 2016 1:37 AM, "Ted Yu" <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The weight field is not nullable.
>
> Looks like your source table had null value for this field.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Charles Nnamdi Akalugwu <
> cprenzb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using spark 1.4.1 and trying to copy all rows from a table in one
>> MySQL Database to a Amazon RDS table using spark SQL.
>>
>> Some columns in the source table are defined as DECIMAL type and are
>> nullable. Others are not. When I run my spark job,
>>
>> val writeData = sqlContext.read.format("jdbc").option("url",
>>>> sourceUrl).option("driver", "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").option("dbtable",
>>>> table).option("user", sourceUsername).option("password",
>>>> sourcePassword).load()
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> writeData.write.format("com.databricks.spark.redshift").option("url",
>>>> String.format(targetUrl, targetUsername, targetPassword)).option("dbtable",
>>>> table).option("tempdir", redshiftTempDir+table).mode("append").save()
>>>
>>>
>> it fails with the following exception
>>
>> Can't translate null value for field
>>> StructField(weight,DecimalType(5,2),false)
>>
>>
>> Any insights about this exception would be very helpful.
>>
>
>
