From 0517feb3ab6d009522d45b8202aae1b537d95961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Givre <cgivre@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:19:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] DRILL-8506: Ignore JSON Elements with Empty Keys

---
 .../drill/exec/store/easy/json/parser/ObjectParser.java       | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/easy/json/parser/ObjectParser.java b/exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/easy/json/parser/ObjectParser.java
index ad405c16417..a5787f85b0c 100644
--- a/exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/easy/json/parser/ObjectParser.java
+++ b/exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/easy/json/parser/ObjectParser.java
@@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ private void parseMember(TokenIterator tokenizer) {
    */
   private ElementParser detectValueParser(String key, TokenIterator tokenizer) {
     if (key.isEmpty()) {
-      throw errorFactory().structureError(
-          "Drill does not allow empty keys in JSON key/value pairs");
+      logger.warn("Ignoring empty key: {}", key);
+      return DummyValueParser.INSTANCE;
     }
     ElementParser fieldParser = onField(key, tokenizer);
     if (fieldParser == null) {