spark-instrumented-optimizer/sql/core
bravo-zhang 84454d7d33 [SPARK-14932][SQL] Allow DataFrame.replace() to replace values with None
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Currently `df.na.replace("*", Map[String, String]("NULL" -> null))` will produce exception.
This PR enables passing null/None as value in the replacement map in DataFrame.replace().
Note that the replacement map keys and values should still be the same type, while the values can have a mix of null/None and that type.
This PR enables following operations for example:
`df.na.replace("*", Map[String, String]("NULL" -> null))`(scala)
`df.na.replace("*", Map[Any, Any](60 -> null, 70 -> 80))`(scala)
`df.na.replace('Alice', None)`(python)
`df.na.replace([10, 20])`(python, replacing with None is by default)
One use case could be: I want to replace all the empty strings with null/None because they were incorrectly generated and then drop all null/None data
`df.na.replace("*", Map("" -> null)).na.drop()`(scala)
`df.replace(u'', None).dropna()`(python)

## How was this patch tested?

Scala unit test.
Python doctest and unit test.

Author: bravo-zhang <mzhang1230@gmail.com>

Closes #18820 from bravo-zhang/spark-14932.
2017-08-09 17:42:21 -07:00
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benchmarks [SPARK-17335][SQL] Fix ArrayType and MapType CatalogString. 2016-09-03 19:02:20 +02:00
src [SPARK-14932][SQL] Allow DataFrame.replace() to replace values with None 2017-08-09 17:42:21 -07:00
pom.xml [SPARK-20433][BUILD] Bump jackson from 2.6.5 to 2.6.7.1 2017-08-08 18:15:29 -07:00