[HIVE-11513] AvroLazyObjectInspector could handle empty data better

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0, 2.0.0
• Assignee: Swarnim Kulkarni
• Reporter: Swarnim Kulkarni
• Created: 10/Aug/15 22:39
• Updated: 16/Feb/16 23:52
• Resolved: 21/Aug/15 18:18

Description

Currently in the AvroLazyObjectInspector, it looks like we only handle the case when the data send to deserialize is null[1]. It would be nice to handle the case when it is empty.

[1] https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroLazyObjectInspector.java#L226-L228