Correctly reading empty fields in as null rather than throwing exception #1831
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By default we intend to treat empty fields as nulls when being read in through spark sql. However we actually
turn them into None objects, which causes spark-sql to blow up in spark 2 and 3. This commit treats them
as nulls, which works for all versions of spark we currently support.
Closes #1635