[SQOOP-1404] Import to HBase disregard --null-string option and skips nulls

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gwen Shapira
• Created: 29/Jul/14 17:16
• Updated: 29/Jul/14 17:16

Description

Current behavior of HBase import seems to confuse users since some data is dropped with no warning.

We should support --null option to allow users to insert a value to represent nulls into HBase.