Fill NA/NaN values using the specified method.

        Parameters
        ----------
        value : scalar, array-like
            If a scalar value is passed it is used to fill all missing values.
            Alternatively, an array-like 'value' can be given. It's expected
            that the array-like have the same length as 'self'.
        method : {'backfill', 'bfill', 'pad', 'ffill', None}, default None
            Method to use for filling holes in reindexed Series
            pad / ffill: propagate last valid observation forward to next valid
            backfill / bfill: use NEXT valid observation to fill gap
        limit : int, default None
            If method is specified, this is the maximum number of consecutive
            NaN values to forward/backward fill. In other words, if there is
            a gap with more than this number of consecutive NaNs, it will only
            be partially filled. If method is not specified, this is the
            maximum number of entries along the entire axis where NaNs will be
            filled.

        Returns
        -------
        filled : ExtensionArray with NA/NaN filled

def fillna(self, value=None, method=None, limit=None):
        """
        Fill NA/NaN values using the specified method.

        Parameters
        ----------
        value : scalar, array-like
            If a scalar value is passed it is used to fill all missing values.
            Alternatively, an array-like 'value' can be given. It's expected
            that the array-like have the same length as 'self'.
        method : {'backfill', 'bfill', 'pad', 'ffill', None}, default None
            Method to use for filling holes in reindexed Series
            pad / ffill: propagate last valid observation forward to next valid
            backfill / bfill: use NEXT valid observation to fill gap
        limit : int, default None
            If method is specified, this is the maximum number of consecutive
            NaN values to forward/backward fill. In other words, if there is
            a gap with more than this number of consecutive NaNs, it will only
            be partially filled. If method is not specified, this is the
            maximum number of entries along the entire axis where NaNs will be
            filled.

        Returns
        -------
        filled : ExtensionArray with NA/NaN filled
        """
        from pandas.api.types import is_array_like
        from pandas.util._validators import validate_fillna_kwargs
        from pandas.core.missing import pad_1d, backfill_1d

        value, method = validate_fillna_kwargs(value, method)

        mask = self.isna()

        if is_array_like(value):
            if len(value) != len(self):
                raise ValueError("Length of 'value' does not match. Got ({}) "
                                 " expected {}".format(len(value), len(self)))
            value = value[mask]

        if mask.any():
            if method is not None:
                func = pad_1d if method == 'pad' else backfill_1d
                new_values = func(self.astype(object), limit=limit,
                                  mask=mask)
                new_values = self._from_sequence(new_values, dtype=self.dtype)
            else:
                # fill with value
                new_values = self.copy()
                new_values[mask] = value
        else:
            new_values = self.copy()
        return new_values