Pavel, That's a good point, but I don't think there is a significantly better way of doing this in Java.
There should be a way to check if a field is nullable or not though. Schema already provides this information, doesn't it? -Val On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:03 AM Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@apache.org> wrote: > Igniters, > > Looks like Tuple API has no efficient way to tell if a value for a nullable > column of primitive type is null. > > - Tuple#intValue() will return 0 when the actual value is null => not clear > if 0 is 0 or null. > - Tuple#value() works, but is more expensive due to boxing and type lookup. > > Any ideas on how to improve this? >
