feat: add option in csv readers to clean and null empty strings

src/dve/core_engine/backends/implementations/duckdb/readers/csv.py

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ def __init__(
         field_check: bool = False,
         field_check_error_code: Optional[str] = "ExpectedVsActualFieldMismatch",
         field_check_error_message: Optional[str] = "The submitted header is missing fields",
+        null_empty_strings: bool = False,
         **_,
     ):
         self.header = header
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.field_check = field_check
         self.field_check_error_code = field_check_error_code
         self.field_check_error_message = field_check_error_message
+        self.null_empty_strings = null_empty_strings
 
         super().__init__()
 
@@ -109,7 +111,16 @@ def read_to_relation(  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
         }
 
         reader_options["columns"] = ddb_schema
-        return read_csv(resource, **reader_options)
+        rel = read_csv(resource, **reader_options)
+
+        if self.null_empty_strings:
+            cleaned_cols = ",".join([
+                f"NULLIF(TRIM({c}), '') as {c}"
+                for c in reader_options["columns"].keys()
+            ])
+            rel = rel.select(cleaned_cols)
+
+        return rel
 
 
 class PolarsToDuckDBCSVReader(DuckDBCSVReader):
@@ -147,6 +158,9 @@ def read_to_relation(  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
         # redundant
         df = pl.scan_csv(resource, **reader_options).select(list(polars_types.keys()))  # type: ignore  # pylint: disable=W0612
 
+        if self.null_empty_strings:
+            df = df.select([pl.col(c).str.strip_chars().replace("", None) for c in df.columns])
+
         return ddb.sql("SELECT * FROM df")
 
 

src/dve/core_engine/backends/implementations/spark/readers/csv.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from collections.abc import Iterator
 from typing import Any, Optional
 
+import pyspark.sql.functions as psf
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from pyspark.sql import DataFrame, SparkSession
 from pyspark.sql.types import StructType
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ def __init__(
         header: bool = True,
         multi_line: bool = False,
         encoding: str = "utf-8-sig",
+        null_empty_strings: bool = False,
         spark_session: Optional[SparkSession] = None,
         **_,
     ) -> None:
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.quote_char = quote_char
         self.header = header
         self.multi_line = multi_line
+        self.null_empty_strings = null_empty_strings
         self.spark_session = spark_session if spark_session else SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()  # type: ignore  # pylint: disable=C0301
 
         super().__init__()
@@ -70,8 +73,16 @@ def read_to_dataframe(
             "multiLine": self.multi_line,
         }
 
-        return (
+        df = (
             self.spark_session.read.format("csv")
             .options(**kwargs)  # type: ignore
             .load(resource, schema=spark_schema)
         )
+
+        if self.null_empty_strings:
+            df = df.select(*[
+                psf.trim(psf.col(c.name)).alias(c.name)
+                for c in spark_schema.fields
+            ]).replace("", None)
+
+        return df

tests/test_core_engine/test_backends/test_readers/test_ddb_csv.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
 
+import polars as pl
 import pytest
 from duckdb import DuckDBPyRelation, default_connection
 from pydantic import BaseModel
@@ -33,6 +34,10 @@ class SimpleHeaderModel(BaseModel):
     header_2: str
 
 
+class VerySimpleModel(BaseModel):
+    test_col: str
+
+
 @pytest.fixture
 def temp_dir():
     with TemporaryDirectory(prefix="ddb_test_csv_reader") as temp_dir:
@@ -157,3 +162,74 @@ def test_ddb_csv_repeating_header_reader_with_more_than_one_set_of_distinct_valu
 
     with pytest.raises(MessageBearingError):
         reader.read_to_relation(str(file_uri), "test", SimpleHeaderModel)
+
+
+def test_DuckDBCSVReader_with_null_empty_strings(temp_dir):
+    test_df = pl.DataFrame({"test_col": ["fine", " ", "    "]})
+    file_uri = temp_dir.joinpath("test_empty_string1.csv").as_posix()
+    test_df.write_csv(
+        file_uri,
+        include_header=True,
+        quote_style="always"
+    )
+
+    reader = DuckDBCSVReader(
+        header=True,
+        delim=",",
+        quotechar='"',
+        connection=default_connection,
+        null_empty_strings=True,
+    )
+
+    entity = reader.read_to_relation(file_uri, "test", VerySimpleModel)
+
+    assert entity.shape[0] == 3
+    assert entity.filter("test_col IS NULL").shape[0] == 2
+
+
+def test_DuckDBCSVRepeatingHeaderReader_with_null_empty_strings(temp_dir):
+    test_df = pl.DataFrame({
+        "header_1": ["fine",], "header_2": ["    "],
+    })
+    file_uri = temp_dir.joinpath("test_empty_string2.csv").as_posix()
+    test_df.write_csv(
+        file_uri,
+        include_header=True,
+        quote_style="always"
+    )
+
+    reader = DuckDBCSVRepeatingHeaderReader(
+        header=True,
+        delim=",",
+        quotechar='"',
+        connection=default_connection,
+        null_empty_strings=True,
+    )
+
+    entity = reader.read_to_relation(file_uri, "test", SimpleHeaderModel)
+
+    assert entity.shape[0] == 1
+    assert entity.filter("header_2 IS NULL").shape[0] == 1
+
+
+def test_PolarsToDuckDBCSVReader_with_null_empty_strings(temp_dir):
+    test_df = pl.DataFrame({"test_col": ["fine", " ", "    "]})
+    file_uri = temp_dir.joinpath("test_empty_string3.csv").as_posix()
+    test_df.write_csv(
+        file_uri,
+        include_header=True,
+        quote_style="always"
+    )
+
+    reader = PolarsToDuckDBCSVReader(
+        header=True,
+        delim=",",
+        quotechar='"',
+        connection=default_connection,
+        null_empty_strings=True,
+    )
+
+    entity = reader.read_to_relation(file_uri, "test", VerySimpleModel)
+
+    assert entity.shape[0] == 3
+    assert entity.filter("test_col IS NULL").shape[0] == 2

tests/test_core_engine/test_backends/test_readers/test_spark/test_spark.py

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+"""Test Spark readers"""
+
+# pylint: disable=W0621
+# pylint: disable=C0116
+# pylint: disable=C0103
+# pylint: disable=C0115
+
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import polars as pl
+import pytest
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+from pyspark.sql import DataFrame, Row, SparkSession
+from pyspark.sql.types import StringType, StructField, StructType
+
+from dve.core_engine.backends.implementations.spark.readers.csv import SparkCSVReader
+
+
+class SparkCSVTestModel(BaseModel):
+    test_col: str
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def spark_null_csv_resource():
+    test_df = pl.DataFrame({"test_col": ["fine", " ", "    "]})
+
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tdir:
+        resource_uri = Path(tdir, "test_spark_csv_reader.csv").as_posix()
+        test_df.write_csv(resource_uri, include_header=True, quote_style="always")
+
+        yield resource_uri
+
+
+def test_SparkCSVReader_clean_empty_strings(spark: SparkSession, spark_null_csv_resource):
+    resource_uri = spark_null_csv_resource
+    expected_df = spark.createDataFrame(
+        [
+            Row(
+                test_col="fine",
+            ),
+            Row(
+                test_col=None,
+            ),
+            Row(test_col=None),
+        ],
+        StructType([StructField("test_field", StringType())]),
+    )
+
+    reader = SparkCSVReader(null_empty_strings=True, spark_session=spark)
+
+    result_df: DataFrame = reader.read_to_dataframe(
+        resource=resource_uri, entity_name="test", schema=SparkCSVTestModel
+    )
+
+    assert result_df.exceptAll(expected_df).count() == 0