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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Rohini Palaniswamy


On Feb. 27, 2014, 12:28 a.m., Cheolsoo Park wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 27, 2014, 12:28 a.m.)
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> Review request for pig, Daniel Dai, Mark Wagner, and Rohini Palaniswamy.
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> Bugs: PIG-3679
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3679
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> Repository: pig-git
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> Description
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> I discovered this regression while debugging the e2e test 
> StreamingPythonUDFs_10 in trunk. To summarize, replacing (STATUS_NULL) with 
> (STATUS_OK + null) has changed how null values are handled in some cases. In 
> particular, some UDFs that used to see no nulls are called with nulls and 
> fail with NPE now. Since this is a major backward incompatibility, I changed 
> POUserFunc to filter out nulls always. Technically, this still changes the 
> behavior with nulls, but it seems ok that UDFs that used to fail with NPE no 
> longer fail.
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> Here is my reasoning in more details-
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3679?focusedCommentId=13892966&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13892966
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> Alternatively, we could let UDFs handle nulls by themselves. That seems 
> cleaner to me, but backward incompatibility is a concern (i.e. "My UDFs used 
> to work with 0.12, but it no longer works with 0.13").
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> Diffs
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>   src/org/apache/pig/PigWarning.java 523cf30 
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> src/org/apache/pig/backend/hadoop/executionengine/physicalLayer/expressionOperators/POUserFunc.java
>  f031b1d 
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> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/18525/diff/
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> Testing
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> All e2e tests pass (except Warning_4 PIG-3739).
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> Thanks,
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> Cheolsoo Park
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