From 11360f707e969747e1a30791acb23857cc376589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinay Patil <52563354+veenaypatil@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 03:42:18 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [HUDI-1892] Fix NPE when avro field value is null (#3051)

---
 .../hudi/common/model/OverwriteWithLatestAvroPayload.java       | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/model/OverwriteWithLatestAvroPayload.java b/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/model/OverwriteWithLatestAvroPayload.java
index dd1853d83..c37eab7a9 100644
--- a/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/model/OverwriteWithLatestAvroPayload.java
+++ b/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/model/OverwriteWithLatestAvroPayload.java
@@ -94,6 +94,6 @@ public class OverwriteWithLatestAvroPayload extends BaseAvroPayload
    * Return true if value equals defaultValue otherwise false.
    */
   public Boolean overwriteField(Object value, Object defaultValue) {
-    return defaultValue == null ? value == null : defaultValue.toString().equals(value.toString());
+    return defaultValue == null ? value == null : defaultValue.toString().equals(String.valueOf(value));
   }
 }