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Robert Stupp commented on CASSANDRA-8374:
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To clarify - the syntax would be:
{code}
CREATE FUNCTION foo (
argOne int DEFAULT 42,
argTwo double ALLOW NULL,
argThree float )
RETURN float LANGUAGE java ...
{code}
would generate a Java method with this signature:
{code}
public float execute(int argOne, java.lang.Double argTwo, float argThree)
{code}
If any of the arguments would be {{null}} and neither {{ALLOW NULL}} nor
{{DEFAULT x}} has been declared, the method wouldn't be executed.
There are also implications to aggregates (need some additional checks -
{{INITCOND}} might be required for UDFs, otherwise the state/final function
might never be called at all).
> Better support of null for UDF
> ------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-8374
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8374
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
> Assignee: Robert Stupp
> Fix For: 3.0
>
>
> Currently, every function needs to deal with it's argument potentially being
> {{null}}. There is very many case where that's just annoying, users should be
> able to define a function like:
> {noformat}
> CREATE FUNCTION addTwo(val int) RETURNS int LANGUAGE JAVA AS 'return val + 2;'
> {noformat}
> without having this crashing as soon as a column it's applied to doesn't a
> value for some rows (I'll note that this definition apparently cannot be
> compiled currently, which should be looked into).
> In fact, I think that by default methods shouldn't have to care about
> {{null}} values: if the value is {{null}}, we should not call the method at
> all and return {{null}}. There is still methods that may explicitely want to
> handle {{null}} (to return a default value for instance), so maybe we can add
> an {{ALLOW NULLS}} to the creation syntax.
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