Hello again Soumyadeep,
Another thing I forgot to talk about.
For your use case, maybe something like Apache FreeMarker will be a better
fit as Calcite is a bit too heavy-handed for that, I feel :)

- Askar

On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 18:37, Soumyadeep Mukhopadhyay <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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