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Will Boulter updated SPARK-46251:
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    Description: 
In Spark {{3.3.2}} encoders created using {{Encoders.tuple(encoder1, encoder2, 
..)}} correctly handle casting {{{{null }}}}into {{{{None }}}}when the target 
type is {{{}an Option{}}}. 

In Spark {{{}3.3.3{}}}, this behaviour has changed and the Option value comes 
through as {{null}} which is likely to cause a {{NullPointerException}} for 
most Scala code that operates on the Option. The change seems to be related to 
the following commit:

[https://github.com/apache/spark/commit/9110c05d54c392e55693eba4509be37c571d610a]

I have made a reproduction with a couple of examples in a public Github repo 
here:

[https://github.com/q-willboulter/spark-tuple-encoders-bug] 

The common use case where this is likely to be encountered is while doing any 
joins that can return null, e.g. left or outer joins. When casting the result 
of a left join it is sensible to wrap the right-hand side in an Option to 
handle the case where there is no match. Since 3.3.3 this would fail if the 
encoder is derived manually using {{Encoders.tuple(leftEncoder, rightEncoder).}}

If the entire tuple encoder {{Encoder[(Left, Option[Right]])}} is derived at 
once using reflection, the encoder works as expected. The bug appears to be in 
the following function inside {{ExpressionEncoder.scala}}
{code:java}
def tuple(encoders: Seq[ExpressionEncoder[_]]): ExpressionEncoder[_] = ...{code}
 

  was:
In Spark {{3.3.2}} encoders created using {{Encoders.tuple(encoder1, encoder2, 
..)}} correctly handle casting {{null}} into {{None }}when the target type is 
an {{{}Option{}}}. 

 

In Spark {{{}3.3.3{}}}, this behaviour has changed and the Option value comes 
through as {{null}} which is likely to cause a {{NullPointerException}} for 
most Scala code that operates on the Option. The change seems to be related to 
the following commit:

[https://github.com/apache/spark/commit/9110c05d54c392e55693eba4509be37c571d610a]

 

I have made a reproduction with a couple of examples in a public Github repo 
here:

[https://github.com/q-willboulter/spark-tuple-encoders-bug] 

 

The common use case where this is likely to be encountered is while doing any 
joins that can return null, e.g. left or outer joins. When casting the result 
of a left join it is sensible to wrap the right-hand side in an Option to 
handle the case where there is no match. Since 3.3.3 this would fail if the 
encoder is derived manually using {{Encoders.tuple(leftEncoder, rightEncoder).}}

If the entire tuple encoder {{Encoder[(Left, Option[Right]])}} is derived at 
once using reflection, the encoder works as expected. The bug appears to be in 
the following function inside {{ExpressionEncoder.scala}}

 
{code:java}
def tuple(encoders: Seq[ExpressionEncoder[_]]): ExpressionEncoder[_] = ...{code}
 


> Spark 3.3.3 tuple encoders built using `Encoders.tuple` do not correctly cast 
> null into None for Option values
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-46251
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-46251
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.3, 3.4.2, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.5.0
>            Reporter: Will Boulter
>            Priority: Major
>
> In Spark {{3.3.2}} encoders created using {{Encoders.tuple(encoder1, 
> encoder2, ..)}} correctly handle casting {{{{null }}}}into {{{{None }}}}when 
> the target type is {{{}an Option{}}}. 
> In Spark {{{}3.3.3{}}}, this behaviour has changed and the Option value comes 
> through as {{null}} which is likely to cause a {{NullPointerException}} for 
> most Scala code that operates on the Option. The change seems to be related 
> to the following commit:
> [https://github.com/apache/spark/commit/9110c05d54c392e55693eba4509be37c571d610a]
> I have made a reproduction with a couple of examples in a public Github repo 
> here:
> [https://github.com/q-willboulter/spark-tuple-encoders-bug] 
> The common use case where this is likely to be encountered is while doing any 
> joins that can return null, e.g. left or outer joins. When casting the result 
> of a left join it is sensible to wrap the right-hand side in an Option to 
> handle the case where there is no match. Since 3.3.3 this would fail if the 
> encoder is derived manually using {{Encoders.tuple(leftEncoder, 
> rightEncoder).}}
> If the entire tuple encoder {{Encoder[(Left, Option[Right]])}} is derived at 
> once using reflection, the encoder works as expected. The bug appears to be 
> in the following function inside {{ExpressionEncoder.scala}}
> {code:java}
> def tuple(encoders: Seq[ExpressionEncoder[_]]): ExpressionEncoder[_] = 
> ...{code}
>  



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