[HBASE-21841] Allow inserting null values throw DataSource API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: connector-1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: connector-1.0.0
• Component/s: spark
• Assignee: Balazs Meszaros
• Reporter: Balazs Meszaros
• Created: 04/Feb/19 11:05
• Updated: 12/Feb/19 13:19
• Resolved: 12/Feb/19 13:19

Description

If I try to insert a DataFrame with null values, spark throws an exception:

Caused by: java.lang.Exception: unsupported data type StringType
    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.datasources.Utils$.toBytes(Utils.scala:88)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13