From f29e404449d91f5195098210b1a0aa7e26ce6077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Roeschke <10647082+mroeschke@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:40:39 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] Replace cudf column.full with cudf.as_column (#1350)

I have a PR in cudf removing `full` in favor of `as_column` which has equivalent functionality (https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/14698), so replacing the single usage I found here

Authors:
  - Matthew Roeschke (https://github.com/mroeschke)
  - Bradley Dice (https://github.com/bdice)

Approvers:
  - Vyas Ramasubramani (https://github.com/vyasr)
  - Mark Harris (https://github.com/harrism)
  - GALI PREM SAGAR (https://github.com/galipremsagar)
  - Bradley Dice (https://github.com/bdice)

URL: https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1350
---
 .../cuspatial/cuspatial/core/binops/distance_dispatch.py   | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/binops/distance_dispatch.py b/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/binops/distance_dispatch.py
index c19953107..db2e6339b 100644
--- a/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/binops/distance_dispatch.py
+++ b/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/binops/distance_dispatch.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import cudf
-from cudf.core.column import as_column, full
+from cudf.core.column import as_column
 
 from cuspatial._lib.distance import (
     pairwise_linestring_distance,
@@ -185,10 +185,11 @@ def __call__(self):
 
         # Rows with misaligned indices contains nan. Here we scatter the
         # distance values to the correct indices.
-        result = full(
-            len(self._res_index),
+        result = as_column(
             float("nan"),
+            length=len(self._res_index),
             dtype="float64",
+            nan_as_null=False,
         )
         scatter_map = as_column(
             range(len(self._res_index)), dtype="int32"