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Dmitriy V. Ryaboy commented on PIG-2915: ---------------------------------------- +1 will commit to trunk. > Builtin TOP udf is sensitive to null input bags > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-2915 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2915 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: internal-udfs > Affects Versions: 0.11 > Reporter: Andy Schlaikjer > Assignee: Andy Schlaikjer > Attachments: pig-null_safe_top.1.patch, pig-null_safe_top.2.patch > > > TOP(max, sortField, inputBag) is sensitive to null inputBag arguments. > In some cases it is preferable for a UDF to simply return null for null > inputs e.g. to avoid conditional logic in a script. > Most of the UDFs I write act this way, but TOP does not. This patch updates > TOP to return null in the case where all input bags are null. Unit tests are > included to confirm expected behavior. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira