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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-1820: --------------------------------------- Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/566#discussion_r28610833 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/types/parser/DoubleParser.java --- @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ public int parseField(byte[] bytes, int startPos, int limit, byte[] delimiter, D } String str = new String(bytes, startPos, i-startPos); + if (str.length() == 0) { --- End diff -- remove whitespaces with `String.trim()` before checking for `length() == 0`. > Bug in DoubleParser and FloatParser - empty String is not casted to 0 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-1820 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1820 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core > Affects Versions: 0.8.0, 0.9, 0.8.1 > Reporter: Felix Neutatz > Assignee: Felix Neutatz > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 0.9 > > > Hi, > I found the bug, when I wanted to read a csv file, which had a line like: > "||\n" > If I treat it as a Tuple2<Long,Long>, I get as expected a tuple (0L,0L). > But if I want to read it into a Double-Tuple or a Float-Tuple, I get the > following error: > java.lang.AssertionError: Test failed due to a > org.apache.flink.api.common.io.ParseException: Line could not be parsed: '||' > ParserError NUMERIC_VALUE_FORMAT_ERROR > This error can be solved by adding an additional condition for empty strings > in the FloatParser / DoubleParser. > We definitely need the CSVReader to be able to read "empty values". > I can fix it like described if there are no better ideas :) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)