[SPARK-24976][PYTHON] Allow None for Decimal type conversion (specific to PyArrow 0.9.0)

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

See [ARROW-2432](https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2432). Seems using `from_pandas` to convert decimals fails if encounters a value of `None`:

```python
import pyarrow as pa
import pandas as pd
from decimal import Decimal

pa.Array.from_pandas(pd.Series([Decimal('3.14'), None]), type=pa.decimal128(3, 2))
```

**Arrow 0.8.0**

```
<pyarrow.lib.Decimal128Array object at 0x10a572c58>
[
  Decimal('3.14'),
  NA
]
```

**Arrow 0.9.0**

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "array.pxi", line 383, in pyarrow.lib.Array.from_pandas
  File "array.pxi", line 177, in pyarrow.lib.array
  File "error.pxi", line 77, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
  File "error.pxi", line 77, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Error converting from Python objects to Decimal: Got Python object of type NoneType but can only handle these types: decimal.Decimal
```

This PR propose to work around this via Decimal NaN:

```python
pa.Array.from_pandas(pd.Series([Decimal('3.14'), Decimal('NaN')]), type=pa.decimal128(3, 2))
```

```
<pyarrow.lib.Decimal128Array object at 0x10ffd2e68>
[
  Decimal('3.14'),
  NA
]
```

## How was this patch tested?

Manually tested:

```bash
SPARK_TESTING=1 ./bin/pyspark pyspark.sql.tests ScalarPandasUDFTests
```

**Before**

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/sql/tests.py", line 4672, in test_vectorized_udf_null_decimal
    self.assertEquals(df.collect(), res.collect())
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py", line 533, in collect
    sock_info = self._jdf.collectToPython()
  File "/.../spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.7-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 1257, in __call__
    answer, self.gateway_client, self.target_id, self.name)
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/sql/utils.py", line 63, in deco
    return f(*a, **kw)
  File "/.../spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.7-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py", line 328, in get_return_value
    format(target_id, ".", name), value)
Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o51.collectToPython.
: org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 3 in stage 1.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 3.0 in stage 1.0 (TID 7, localhost, executor driver): org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonException: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/worker.py", line 320, in main
    process()
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/worker.py", line 315, in process
    serializer.dump_stream(func(split_index, iterator), outfile)
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/serializers.py", line 274, in dump_stream
    batch = _create_batch(series, self._timezone)
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/serializers.py", line 243, in _create_batch
    arrs = [create_array(s, t) for s, t in series]
  File "/.../spark/python/pyspark/serializers.py", line 241, in create_array
    return pa.Array.from_pandas(s, mask=mask, type=t)
  File "array.pxi", line 383, in pyarrow.lib.Array.from_pandas
  File "array.pxi", line 177, in pyarrow.lib.array
  File "error.pxi", line 77, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
  File "error.pxi", line 77, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
ArrowInvalid: Error converting from Python objects to Decimal: Got Python object of type NoneType but can only handle these types: decimal.Decimal
```

**After**

```
Running tests...
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Setting default log level to "WARN".
To adjust logging level use sc.setLogLevel(newLevel). For SparkR, use setLogLevel(newLevel).
.......S.............................
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Ran 37 tests in 21.980s
```

Author: hyukjinkwon <[email protected]>

Closes #21928 from HyukjinKwon/SPARK-24976.

Author: HyukjinKwon

python/pyspark/serializers.py

@@ -216,9 +216,10 @@ def _create_batch(series, timezone):
     :param timezone: A timezone to respect when handling timestamp values
     :return: Arrow RecordBatch
     """
-
-    from pyspark.sql.types import _check_series_convert_timestamps_internal
+    import decimal
+    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
     import pyarrow as pa
+    from pyspark.sql.types import _check_series_convert_timestamps_internal
     # Make input conform to [(series1, type1), (series2, type2), ...]
     if not isinstance(series, (list, tuple)) or \
             (len(series) == 2 and isinstance(series[1], pa.DataType)):
@@ -236,6 +237,11 @@ def create_array(s, t):
             # TODO: need decode before converting to Arrow in Python 2
             return pa.Array.from_pandas(s.apply(
                 lambda v: v.decode("utf-8") if isinstance(v, str) else v), mask=mask, type=t)
+        elif t is not None and pa.types.is_decimal(t) and \
+                LooseVersion("0.9.0") <= LooseVersion(pa.__version__) < LooseVersion("0.10.0"):
+            # TODO: see ARROW-2432. Remove when the minimum PyArrow version becomes 0.10.0.
+            return pa.Array.from_pandas(s.apply(
+                lambda v: decimal.Decimal('NaN') if v is None else v), mask=mask, type=t)
         return pa.Array.from_pandas(s, mask=mask, type=t)
 
     arrs = [create_array(s, t) for s, t in series]