[HIVE-14658] UDF abs throws NPE when input arg type is string

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0, 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: UDF
• Assignee: Niklaus Xiao
• Reporter: Niklaus Xiao
• Created: 27/Aug/16 07:14
• Updated: 21/Jul/17 18:12
• Resolved: 31/Aug/16 00:30

Description

I know this is not the right use case, but NPE is not exptected.

0: jdbc:hive2://10.64.35.144:21066/> select abs("foo");
Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: NullPointerException null (state=42000,code=40000)