danny0405 commented on code in PR #8300: URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/8300#discussion_r1162582638
########## hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/execution/bulkinsert/RDDCustomColumnsSortPartitioner.java: ########## @@ -61,13 +61,8 @@ public JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> repartitionRecords(JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> reco final boolean consistentLogicalTimestampEnabled = this.consistentLogicalTimestampEnabled; return records.sortBy( record -> { - Object recordValue = record.getColumnValues(schema.get(), sortColumns, consistentLogicalTimestampEnabled); - // null values are replaced with empty string for null_first order - if (recordValue == null) { - return StringUtils.EMPTY_STRING; - } else { - return StringUtils.objToString(recordValue); - } + Object[] columnValues = record.getColumnValues(schema.get(), sortColumns, consistentLogicalTimestampEnabled); + return FlatLists.ofComparableArray(columnValues); Review Comment: Is the NULL still obeying the null_first order? Could the nulls throw exception here? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@hudi.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org