Passing an array of nulls results in incorrect StdData object in Hive

[shardulm94]

When dealing with StdData objects, we expect that StdData.get() will never be null, instead the StdData objects itself are null. But in case of arrays of strings in Hive, we do get StdString with a null value underneath.

I think a change needs to go in

transport/transportable-udfs-hive/src/main/java/com/linkedin/transport/hive/HiveWrapper.java

Line 43 in 3be8352

if (hiveObjectInspector instanceof IntObjectInspector) {

where if hiveData is null then StdData should also be returned a null.

[wmoustafa]

Seems to be addressed here.