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James Taylor commented on PHOENIX-538:
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bq. Can we have a check(make classname as part of primary key) like functions
should have unique class name to avoid such problems?
I don't think you want classname in the PK as it's not part of the identity of
the UDF. When you go to resolve the UDF, you won't have the classname (nor
would you want to require it). This seems like something that'd be ok for the
user to have to worry about for V1 to me. We could have a local secondary index
on tenantID+classname that we check for uniqueness when a function is created.
Do you have a pointer to the code that manages the class loaders on the
client-side?
How do you manage unloading jars if a UDF is replaced with with a new
implementation in a different or the same jar? Do you need to deal with this?
On the server-side too?
> 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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