Val, > I don't think there is a significantly better way > of doing this in Java.
Yep looks like there is no way to return two values without boxing. No ref, no out, no value types. > Schema already provides this information, doesn't it? It does, though we don't have an agreement on how to expose this on public API yet, or do we? On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:44 AM Valentin Kulichenko < valentin.kuliche...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > > >
