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hortonworks-spark / shc

The Apache Spark - Apache HBase Connector is a library to support Spark accessing HBase table as external data source or sink.
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shc seems to conflate null and empty string and treat both as null #335

Open khampson opened 4 years ago

khampson commented 4 years ago

Null and empty string are of course separate values, and there are some use cases where it is critical to distinguish between the two within a DataFrame.

Is this something that can be addressed?

Thanks.