[GitHub] [carbondata] manishnalla1994 commented on a change in pull request #3212: [CARBONDATA-3377] Fix for Null pointer exception in Range Col compaction

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manishnalla1994 commented on a change in pull request #3212: [CARBONDATA-3377] Fix for Null pointer exception in Range Col compaction
URL: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/3212#discussion_r284213081
 
 

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 File path: integration/spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/carbondata/spark/load/DataLoadProcessBuilderOnSpark.scala
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 @@ -385,6 +385,11 @@ class ByteArrayOrdering() extends Ordering[Object] {
 
 class StringOrdering() extends Ordering[Object] {
   override def compare(x: Object, y: Object): Int = {
-    (x.asInstanceOf[UTF8String]).compare(y.asInstanceOf[UTF8String])
+    if (x == null) {
 
 Review comment:
   It will work fine as all of the null values will become the lowest values and sort accordingly.

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