Fix bug in MinLength and MaxLength when NullBehavior.EmptyString

src/main/scala/com/amazon/deequ/analyzers/MaxLength.scala

@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ case class MaxLength(column: String, where: Option[String] = None, analyzerOptio
       case NullBehavior.Fail =>
         conditionSelectionGivenColumn(colLengths, Option(isNullCheck), replaceWith = Double.MaxValue)
       case NullBehavior.EmptyString =>
-        length(conditionSelectionGivenColumn(col(column), Option(isNullCheck), replaceWith = "")).cast(DoubleType)
+        // Empty String is 0 length string
+        conditionSelectionGivenColumn(colLengths, Option(isNullCheck), replaceWith = 0.0).cast(DoubleType)
       case _ =>
         colLengths
     }

src/main/scala/com/amazon/deequ/analyzers/MinLength.scala

@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ case class MinLength(column: String, where: Option[String] = None, analyzerOptio
       case NullBehavior.Fail =>
         conditionSelectionGivenColumn(colLengths, Option(isNullCheck), replaceWith = Double.MinValue)
       case NullBehavior.EmptyString =>
-        length(conditionSelectionGivenColumn(col(column), Option(isNullCheck), replaceWith = "")).cast(DoubleType)
+        // Empty String is 0 length string
+        conditionSelectionGivenColumn(colLengths, Option(isNullCheck), replaceWith = 0.0).cast(DoubleType)
       case _ =>
         colLengths
     }

src/test/scala/com/amazon/deequ/VerificationSuiteTest.scala

@@ -600,6 +600,47 @@ class VerificationSuiteTest extends WordSpec with Matchers with SparkContextSpec
       assert(Seq(false, null, false, true, null, true).sameElements(rowLevel4))
     }
 
+    "confirm that minLength and maxLength properly filters with nullBehavior empty" in withSparkSession { session =>
+      val data = getDfCompleteAndInCompleteColumnsAndVarLengthStrings(session)
+
+      val minLength = new Check(CheckLevel.Error, "rule1")
+        .hasMinLength("item", _ > 3,
+          analyzerOptions = Option(AnalyzerOptions(NullBehavior.EmptyString, FilteredRowOutcome.NULL)))
+        .where("val1 > 3")
+      val maxLength = new Check(CheckLevel.Error, "rule2")
+        .hasMaxLength("item", _ <= 3,
+          analyzerOptions = Option(AnalyzerOptions(NullBehavior.EmptyString, FilteredRowOutcome.NULL)))
+        .where("val1 < 4")
+
+      val expectedColumn1 = minLength.description
+      val expectedColumn2 = maxLength.description
+
+      val suite = new VerificationSuite().onData(data)
+        .addCheck(minLength)
+        .addCheck(maxLength)
+
+      val result: VerificationResult = suite.run()
+
+      val resultData = VerificationResult.rowLevelResultsAsDataFrame(session, result, data)
+
+      resultData.show(false)
+
+      val expectedColumns: Set[String] =
+        data.columns.toSet + expectedColumn1 + expectedColumn2
+      assert(resultData.columns.toSet == expectedColumns)
+
+      // Unfiltered rows are all true - overall result should be Success
+      assert(result.status == CheckStatus.Success)
+
+      // minLength > 3 would fail for the first three rows (length 1,2,3)
+      val rowLevel1 = resultData.select(expectedColumn1).collect().map(r => r.getAs[Any](0))
+      assert(Seq(null, null, null, true, true, true).sameElements(rowLevel1))
+
+      // maxLength <= 3 would fail for the last three rows (length 4,5,6)
+      val rowLevel2 = resultData.select(expectedColumn2).collect().map(r => r.getAs[Any](0))
+      assert(Seq(true, true, true, null, null, null).sameElements(rowLevel2))
+    }
+
     "generate a result that contains length row-level results with nullBehavior fail" in withSparkSession { session =>
       val data = getDfCompleteAndInCompleteColumnsAndVarLengthStrings(session)
 

src/test/scala/com/amazon/deequ/checks/CheckTest.scala

@@ -697,6 +697,21 @@ class CheckTest extends AnyWordSpec with Matchers with SparkContextSpec with Fix
         assertSuccess(baseCheck.hasMaxLength("att1", _ == 4.0), context)
     }
 
+    "yield correct results for minimum and maximum length stats with where clause" in
+      withSparkSession { sparkSession =>
+        val emptyNulLBehavior = Option(AnalyzerOptions(NullBehavior.EmptyString))
+        val baseCheck = Check(CheckLevel.Error, description = "a description")
+        val df = getDfCompleteAndInCompleteColumnsAndVarLengthStrings(sparkSession)
+        val context = AnalysisRunner.onData(df)
+          .addAnalyzers(Seq(MinLength("item", Option("val1 > 3"), emptyNulLBehavior),
+            MaxLength("item", Option("val1 <= 3"), emptyNulLBehavior))).run()
+
+        assertSuccess(baseCheck.hasMinLength("item", _ >= 4.0, analyzerOptions = emptyNulLBehavior)
+          .where("val1 > 3"), context) // 1 without where clause
+        assertSuccess(baseCheck.hasMaxLength("item", _ <= 3.0, analyzerOptions = emptyNulLBehavior)
+          .where("val1 <= 3"), context) // 6 without where clause
+      }
+
     "work on regular expression patterns for E-Mails" in withSparkSession { sparkSession =>
       val col = "some"
       val df = dataFrameWithColumn(col, StringType, sparkSession, Row("someone@somewhere.org"),