Github user arina-ielchiieva commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/819#discussion_r114961290
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exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/expr/fn/DrillStringCastFuncHolder.java
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+package org.apache.drill.exec.expr.fn;
+
+import com.google.common.primitives.Ints;
+import org.apache.drill.common.expression.LogicalExpression;
+import org.apache.drill.common.expression.ValueExpressions;
+import org.apache.drill.common.types.TypeProtos;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Function holder for functions with function scope set as
+ * {@link
org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.FunctionTemplate.FunctionScope#STRING_CAST}.
+ */
+public class DrillStringCastFuncHolder extends DrillSimpleFuncHolder {
+
+ public DrillStringCastFuncHolder(FunctionAttributes functionAttributes,
FunctionInitializer initializer) {
+ super(functionAttributes, initializer);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Defines function return type and sets cast length as type precision
+ * if cast length is simple long expression.
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For cast functions we determine output precision by checking second logical
expression. If this expression is passed as long expression (`cast(col as
varchar(10)`), then we cast second logical expression to
`ValueExpressions.LongExpression` and get length value. If customer has passed
length parameter as varchar (`cast(col as varchar('10')`), function will still
work since Drill convert string to long but second expression won't
`ValueExpressions.LongExpression`, it will be `DrillFuncHolder` since cast to
bigint would be applied first. In this case it will be hard to get actual
length value (to many checking of instanceof etc). In this case we leave
precision unset. Basically we set precision in cast functions only if user has
indicated cast expression properly.
This PR we set precision only for string types, other types are not
included.
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