Hi,
the reason why this doesn't work is that the TupleSerializer cannot deal
with null values:
@Test
def testAggregationWithNull(): Unit = {
val env = ExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment
val table = env.fromElements[(Integer, String)](
(123, "a"), (234, "b"), (345, "c"), (null, "d")).toTable
val total = table.select('_1.sum).collect().head.productElement(0)
assertEquals(total, 702)
}
it would have to modified in a similar way to the PojoSerializer and
RowSerializer. You could either leave the tests as they are now in you
pull request or also modify the TupleSerializer. Both seem fine to me.
Cheers,
Aljoscha
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 at 20:28 Shiti Saxena <ssaxena....@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
>
> Re-writing the test in the following manner works. But I am not sure if
> this is the correct way.
>
> def testAggregationWithNull(): Unit = {
>
> val env = ExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment
> val dataSet = env.fromElements[(Integer, String)]((123, "a"), (234,
> "b"), (345, "c"), (0, "d"))
>
> implicit val rowInfo: TypeInformation[Row] = new RowTypeInfo(
> Seq(BasicTypeInfo.INT_TYPE_INFO, BasicTypeInfo.STRING_TYPE_INFO),
> Seq("id", "name"))
>
> val rowDataSet = dataSet.map {
> entry =>
> val row = new Row(2)
> val amount = if(entry._1<100) null else entry._1
> row.setField(0, amount)
> row.setField(1, entry._2)
> row
> }
>
> val total =
> rowDataSet.toTable.select('id.sum).collect().head.productElement(0)
> assertEquals(total, 702)
> }
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Shiti Saxena <ssaxena....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For
>>
>> val table = env.fromElements[(Integer, String)]((123, "a"), (234, "b"),
>> (345, "c"), (null, "d")).toTable
>>
>> I get the following error,
>>
>> Error translating node 'Data Source "at
>> org.apache.flink.api.scala.ExecutionEnvironment.fromElements(ExecutionEnvironment.scala:505)
>> (org.apache.flink.api.java.io.CollectionInputFormat)" : NONE [[
>> GlobalProperties [partitioning=RANDOM_PARTITIONED] ]] [[ LocalProperties
>> [ordering=null, grouped=null, unique=null] ]]': null
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.CompilerException: Error translating node
>> 'Data Source "at
>> org.apache.flink.api.scala.ExecutionEnvironment.fromElements(ExecutionEnvironment.scala:505)
>> (org.apache.flink.api.java.io.CollectionInputFormat)" : NONE [[
>> GlobalProperties [partitioning=RANDOM_PARTITIONED] ]] [[ LocalProperties
>> [ordering=null, grouped=null, unique=null] ]]': null
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plantranslate.JobGraphGenerator.preVisit(JobGraphGenerator.java:360)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plantranslate.JobGraphGenerator.preVisit(JobGraphGenerator.java:103)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.SourcePlanNode.accept(SourcePlanNode.java:87)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.SingleInputPlanNode.accept(SingleInputPlanNode.java:199)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.SingleInputPlanNode.accept(SingleInputPlanNode.java:199)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.SingleInputPlanNode.accept(SingleInputPlanNode.java:199)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.SingleInputPlanNode.accept(SingleInputPlanNode.java:199)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.SingleInputPlanNode.accept(SingleInputPlanNode.java:199)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.SingleInputPlanNode.accept(SingleInputPlanNode.java:199)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plan.OptimizedPlan.accept(OptimizedPlan.java:127)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plantranslate.JobGraphGenerator.compileJobGraph(JobGraphGenerator.java:170)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.test.util.TestEnvironment.execute(TestEnvironment.java:52)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.api.java.ExecutionEnvironment.execute(ExecutionEnvironment.java:789)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.api.scala.ExecutionEnvironment.execute(ExecutionEnvironment.scala:576)
>> at org.apache.flink.api.scala.DataSet.collect(DataSet.scala:544)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.api.scala.table.test.AggregationsITCase.testAggregationWithNull(AggregationsITCase.scala:135)
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
>> at
>> org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
>> at
>> org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
>> at
>> org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
>> at
>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
>> at
>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:26)
>> at
>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:27)
>> at org.junit.rules.ExternalResource$1.evaluate(ExternalResource.java:48)
>> at org.junit.rules.RunRules.evaluate(RunRules.java:20)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
>> at
>> org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
>> at
>> org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
>> at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:127)
>> at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:26)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
>> at
>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:26)
>> at
>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:27)
>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
>> at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:160)
>> at
>> com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:78)
>> at
>> com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:212)
>> at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:68)
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
>> at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)
>> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.base.IntSerializer.serialize(IntSerializer.java:63)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.base.IntSerializer.serialize(IntSerializer.java:27)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.api.scala.typeutils.CaseClassSerializer.serialize(CaseClassSerializer.scala:89)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.api.scala.typeutils.CaseClassSerializer.serialize(CaseClassSerializer.scala:29)
>> at org.apache.flink.api.java.io
>> .CollectionInputFormat.writeObject(CollectionInputFormat.java:88)
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
>> at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeWriteObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:988)
>> at
>> java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1493)
>> at
>> java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1429)
>> at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1175)
>> at
>> java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1541)
>> at
>> java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1506)
>> at
>> java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1429)
>> at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1175)
>> at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:347)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.serializeObject(InstantiationUtil.java:314)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.writeObjectToConfig(InstantiationUtil.java:268)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.util.TaskConfig.setStubWrapper(TaskConfig.java:273)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plantranslate.JobGraphGenerator.createDataSourceVertex(JobGraphGenerator.java:853)
>> at
>> org.apache.flink.optimizer.plantranslate.JobGraphGenerator.preVisit(JobGraphGenerator.java:260)
>> ... 55 more
>>
>>
>> Does this mean that the collect method is being called before doing the
>> aggregation? Is this because base serializers do not handle null values
>> like POJOSerializer? And is that why fromCollection does not support
>> collections with null values?
>>
>> Or I could write the test using a file load if thats alright.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> sorry, my mail client sent before I was done.
>>>
>>> I think the problem is that the Scala compiler derives a wrong type for
>>> this statement:
>>> val table = env.fromElements((123, "a"), (234, "b"), (345, "c"), (null,
>>> "d")).toTable
>>>
>>> Because of the null value it derives (Any, String) as the type if you do
>>> it like this, I think it should work:
>>> val table = env.fromElements[(Integer, String)]((123, "a"), (234, "b"),
>>> (345, "c"), (null, "d")).toTable
>>>
>>> I used Integer instead of Int because Scala will complain that null is
>>> not a valid value for Int otherwise.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Aljoscha
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 at 19:34 Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I think the problem is that the Scala compiler derives a wrong type for
>>>> this statement:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 at 18:28 Shiti Saxena <ssaxena....@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Aljoscha,
>>>>>
>>>>> I created the issue FLINK-2210
>>>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2210> for aggregate on
>>>>> null. I made changes to ExpressionAggregateFunction to handle ignore null
>>>>> values. But I am unable to create a Table with null values in tests.
>>>>>
>>>>> The code I used is,
>>>>>
>>>>> def testAggregationWithNull(): Unit = {
>>>>>
>>>>> val env = ExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment
>>>>> val table = env.fromElements((123, "a"), (234, "b"), (345, "c"),
>>>>> (null, "d")).toTable
>>>>>
>>>>> val total = table.select('_1.sum).collect().head.productElement(0)
>>>>> assertEquals(total, 702)
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> and the error i get is,
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.table.ExpressionException: Invalid expression
>>>>> "('_1).sum": Unsupported type GenericType<java.lang.Object> for
>>>>> aggregation
>>>>> ('_1).sum. Only numeric data types supported.
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.table.expressions.analysis.TypeCheck.apply(TypeCheck.scala:50)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.table.expressions.analysis.TypeCheck.apply(TypeCheck.scala:31)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.table.trees.Analyzer$$anonfun$analyze$1.apply(Analyzer.scala:34)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.table.trees.Analyzer$$anonfun$analyze$1.apply(Analyzer.scala:31)
>>>>> at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:318)
>>>>> at org.apache.flink.api.table.trees.Analyzer.analyze(Analyzer.scala:31)
>>>>> at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table$$anonfun$1.apply(Table.scala:59)
>>>>> at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table$$anonfun$1.apply(Table.scala:59)
>>>>> at
>>>>> scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
>>>>> at
>>>>> scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
>>>>> at
>>>>> scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
>>>>> at scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foreach(WrappedArray.scala:34)
>>>>> at
>>>>> scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244)
>>>>> at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:105)
>>>>> at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table.select(Table.scala:59)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.scala.table.test.AggregationsITCase.testAggregationWithNull(AggregationsITCase.scala:135)
>>>>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>>>> at
>>>>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>>>>> at
>>>>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:26)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:27)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.rules.ExternalResource$1.evaluate(ExternalResource.java:48)
>>>>> at org.junit.rules.RunRules.evaluate(RunRules.java:20)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:127)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:26)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:26)
>>>>> at
>>>>> org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:27)
>>>>> at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
>>>>> at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:160)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:78)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:212)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:68)
>>>>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>>>> at
>>>>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>>>>> at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The ExecutionEnvironment.fromCollection method also throws an error
>>>>> when the collection contains a null.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please point out what I am doing wrong? How do we create a
>>>>> Table with null values?
>>>>>
>>>>> In our application, we load a file and transform each line into a Row
>>>>> resulting in a DataSet[Row]. This DataSet[Row] is then converted into
>>>>> Table. Should I use the same approach for the test case?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Shiti
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Shiti Saxena <ssaxena....@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll do the fix
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Aljoscha Krettek <
>>>>>> aljos...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I merged your PR for the RowSerializer. Teaching the aggregators to
>>>>>>> deal with null values should be a very simple fix in
>>>>>>> ExpressionAggregateFunction.scala. There it is simply always aggregating
>>>>>>> the values without checking whether they are null. If you want you can
>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>> fix that or I can quickly fix it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 at 10:40 Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cool, good to hear.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The PojoSerializer already handles null fields. The RowSerializer
>>>>>>>> can be modified in pretty much the same way. So you should start by
>>>>>>>> looking
>>>>>>>> at the copy()/serialize()/deserialize() methods of PojoSerializer and
>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>> modify RowSerializer in a similar way.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can also send me a private mail if you want more in-depth
>>>>>>>> explanations.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 at 09:33 Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Shiti,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> here is the issue [1].
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>> Till
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2203
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:42 AM Shiti Saxena <
>>>>>>>>> ssaxena....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Aljoscha,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Could you please point me to the JIRA tickets? If you could
>>>>>>>>>> provide some guidance on how to resolve these, I will work on them
>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>> raise a pull-request.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Shiti
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Aljoscha Krettek <
>>>>>>>>>> aljos...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>> yes, I think the problem is that the RowSerializer does not
>>>>>>>>>>> support null-values. I think we can add support for this, I will
>>>>>>>>>>> open a
>>>>>>>>>>> Jira issue.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Another problem I then see is that the aggregations can not
>>>>>>>>>>> properly deal with null-values. This would need separate support.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>> Aljoscha
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 at 06:41 Shiti Saxena <ssaxena....@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> In our project, we are using the Flink Table API and are facing
>>>>>>>>>>>> the following issues,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> We load data from a CSV file and create a DataSet[Row]. The CSV
>>>>>>>>>>>> file can also have invalid entries in some of the fields which we
>>>>>>>>>>>> replace
>>>>>>>>>>>> with null when building the DataSet[Row].
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> This DataSet[Row] is later on transformed to Table whenever
>>>>>>>>>>>> required and specific operation such as select or aggregate, etc
>>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>> performed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> When a null value is encountered, we get a null pointer
>>>>>>>>>>>> exception and the whole job fails. (We can see this by calling
>>>>>>>>>>>> collect on
>>>>>>>>>>>> the resulting DataSet).
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The error message is similar to,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Job execution failed.
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.client.JobExecutionException: Job
>>>>>>>>>>>> execution failed.
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager$$anonfun$receiveWithLogMessages$1.applyOrElse(JobManager.scala:315)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply$mcVL$sp(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:33)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction$mcVL$sp.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:25)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.ActorLogMessages$$anon$1.apply(ActorLogMessages.scala:43)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.ActorLogMessages$$anon$1.apply(ActorLogMessages.scala:29)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.PartialFunction$class.applyOrElse(PartialFunction.scala:118)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.ActorLogMessages$$anon$1.applyOrElse(ActorLogMessages.scala:29)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive(Actor.scala:465)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.JobManager.aroundReceive(JobManager.scala:94)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:516)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:487)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:254)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:221)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.exec(Mailbox.scala:231)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107)
>>>>>>>>>>>> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.base.IntSerializer.serialize(IntSerializer.java:63)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.base.IntSerializer.serialize(IntSerializer.java:27)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.table.typeinfo.RowSerializer.serialize(RowSerializer.scala:80)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.api.table.typeinfo.RowSerializer.serialize(RowSerializer.scala:28)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.plugable.SerializationDelegate.write(SerializationDelegate.java:51)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at org.apache.flink.runtime.io
>>>>>>>>>>>> .network.api.serialization.SpanningRecordSerializer.addRecord(SpanningRecordSerializer.java:76)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at org.apache.flink.runtime.io
>>>>>>>>>>>> .network.api.writer.RecordWriter.emit(RecordWriter.java:83)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.shipping.OutputCollector.collect(OutputCollector.java:65)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.chaining.ChainedMapDriver.collect(ChainedMapDriver.java:78)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.chaining.ChainedMapDriver.collect(ChainedMapDriver.java:78)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.flink.runtime.operators.DataSourceTask.invoke(DataSourceTask.java:177)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:559)
>>>>>>>>>>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Could this be because the RowSerializer does not support null
>>>>>>>>>>>> values? (Similar to Flink-629
>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-629> )
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Currently, to overcome this issue, we are ignoring all the rows
>>>>>>>>>>>> which may have null values. For example, we have a method
>>>>>>>>>>>> cleanData defined
>>>>>>>>>>>> as,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> def cleanData(table:Table, relevantColumns:Seq[String]):Table =
>>>>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>>>> val whereClause: String = relevantColumns.map{
>>>>>>>>>>>> cName=>
>>>>>>>>>>>> s"$cName.isNotNull"
>>>>>>>>>>>> }.mkString(" && ")
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> val result :Table =
>>>>>>>>>>>> table.select(relevantColumns.mkString(",")).where(whereClause)
>>>>>>>>>>>> result
>>>>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Before operating on any Table, we use this method and then
>>>>>>>>>>>> continue with task.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Is this the right way to handle this? If not please let me know
>>>>>>>>>>>> how to go about it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Shiti
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
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