Github user ottobackwards commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/293 OK I have it in. Here is the thing that I found, I know there is a pull about fixing IS_EMPTY from throwing exceptions - and I had to take that same return 0 approach instead of throwing. IS_EMPTY did NOT have a test in StellarTests, so it was never being tested through the stellar variable resolver, validation, parser etc. If it had had a test there ( using the run() as implemented in the test ) it never would have been committed, because it NEVER works, no matter what you pass it as originally implemented with the IllegalStateExceptions. This is because the validate calls down to the apply with a specifically null argument which triggers the exception. So, a couple of things: - every stellar function needs to be tested through the whole stellar framework and not just on top of StellarFunction.apply() - why would validate call parse which calls apply? Is that the way it is at runtime? Does apply always get called twice? Is the test harness wrong?
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