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James Taylor commented on PHOENIX-538:
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bq. It's same at client and server side. Making use of DynamicClassLoader only
to load the jars from HDFS. It's working fine.
Will you dynamically load the jar on the client side?
What about tests where different tenants have the same named UDF with different
implementations (invoked on the client-side)? Are you loading them into
separate class loaders?
Will you have tests where both a global UDF is used with a tenant-specific UDF,
as the class loader stuff may get tricky.
> Support UDFs
> ------------
>
> Key: PHOENIX-538
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-538
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: James Taylor
> Assignee: Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla
> Fix For: 5.0.0, 4.4.0
>
> Attachments: PHOENIX-538-wip.patch, PHOENIX-538_v1.patch
>
>
> Phoenix allows built-in functions to be added (as described
> [here](http://phoenix-hbase.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-add-your-own-built-in-function.html))
> with the restriction that they must be in the phoenix jar. We should improve
> on this and allow folks to declare new functions through a CREATE FUNCTION
> command like this:
> CREATE FUNCTION mdHash(anytype)
> RETURNS binary(16)
> LOCATION 'hdfs://path-to-my-jar' 'com.me.MDHashFunction'
> Since HBase supports loading jars dynamically, this would not be too
> difficult. The function implementation class would be required to extend our
> ScalarFunction base class. Here's how I could see it being implemented:
> * modify the phoenix grammar to support the new CREATE FUNCTION syntax
> * create a new UTFParseNode class to capture the parse state
> * add a new method to the MetaDataProtocol interface
> * add a new method in ConnectionQueryServices to invoke the MetaDataProtocol
> method
> * add a new method in MetaDataClient to invoke the ConnectionQueryServices
> method
> * persist functions in a new "SYSTEM.FUNCTION" table
> * add a new client-side representation to cache functions called PFunction
> * modify ColumnResolver to dynamically resolve a function in the same way we
> dynamically resolve and load a table
> * create and register a new ExpressionType called UDFExpression
> * at parse time, check for the function name in the built in list first (as
> is currently done), and if not found in the PFunction cache. If not found
> there, then use the new UDFExpression as a placeholder and have the
> ColumnResolver attempt to resolve it at compile time and throw an error if
> unsuccessful.
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