Hello Askar,

Thank you so much for taking the time to compile the list I shall try them.
:)

With regards,
Soumyadeep Mukhopadhyay.

On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 8:59 PM Oscar Mulin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Soumyadeep,
> I think that can work with a few caveats.
> 0) Use the Planner from Frameworks
> <
> https://calcite.apache.org/javadocAggregate/org/apache/calcite/tools/Frameworks.html
> >
> 1) Parse the “template query" into a syntax tree (a root SqlNode) but do
> not validate it
> 2) Cast the root SqlNode into a SqlSelect
> <
> https://calcite.apache.org/javadocAggregate/org/apache/calcite/sql/SqlSelect.html
> >
> (can
> verify that it's a SELECT by using getKind())
> 3) Use the setters from SqlSelect to modify the children of root SqlSelect
> node.
> 4) Unparse the root query back into a string (SqlNode.unparse()).
>
> Now the tricky part is 3), as you have to set proper SqlNode types as
> children of the SELECT node for column names, table names and for WHERE
> predicate. I don't remember them properly, but what you can do is parse a
> proper query (again, don't validate it as you'll then need table metadata),
> and check the kinds (getKind()) of children SqlNode's and replace them with
> your replacements using setters of root SqlSelect node.
>
> This should work, but I'm not 100% certain as I'm unable to check right
> now.
>
> PS: Take care about dialects. Dialects are used in unparsing as a
> "configuration" of SqlWriter, and can unparse the syntax tree differently
> based on the dialect you have chosen.
>
> Kind regards,
> Askar Bozcan
>
> On 2 Apr 2023, at 14:56, Soumyadeep Mukhopadhyay <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have just heard of Apache Calcite and was exploring the possibilities. I
> wish to achieve the following, and wanted to check if my hunch is correct:
> - Use a template to build SQL queries, like use jinja-sql or even pebble
> (interpret the SqlNode tree kind of structure from my template and then add
> the necessary fields like table name and group by fields from an input)
>
> So what I am expecting is "SELECT ? FROM ? WHERE ?" would be inside a query
> template (in Jinja-sql it may look like "SELECT {{select_fields | sqlsafe}}
> FROM {{table_name | sqlsafe}} WHERE {{where_clause | sqlsafe}}" and values
> like 'select_fields' would be substituted at run-time from a processing
> engine like https://pypi.org/project/Jinja2/, but for Java) and the output
> would be "SELECT col1 FROM table1 WHERE col1 IS NOT NULL" with some dialect
> (like Snowflake or Big-Query).
>
> Is this possible? Any recommendations or suggestions are welcome. Even if
> the approach feels wrong please let me know. :)
> Thank you for your time and consideration.
>
> With regards,
> Soumyadeep Mukhopadhyay.
>

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