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ASF GitHub Bot commented on PHOENIX-4237:
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Github user JamesRTaylor commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/275#discussion_r144416251
--- Diff:
phoenix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/phoenix/expression/function/CollationKeyFunction.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,233 @@
+package org.apache.phoenix.expression.function;
+
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.text.Collator;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang.BooleanUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable;
+import org.apache.phoenix.expression.Expression;
+import org.apache.phoenix.parse.FunctionParseNode;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.tuple.Tuple;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PBoolean;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PDataType;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PInteger;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PIntegerArray;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PUnsignedIntArray;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PVarbinary;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PVarchar;
+import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PhoenixArray;
+
+import com.force.db.i18n.LinguisticSort;
+import com.force.i18n.LocaleUtils;
+
+import com.ibm.icu.impl.jdkadapter.CollatorICU;
+import com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale;
+
+/**
+ * A Phoenix Function that calculates a collation key for an input string
based
+ * on a caller-provided locale and collator strength and decomposition
settings.
+ *
+ * It uses the open-source grammaticus and i18n packages to obtain the
collators
+ * it needs.
--- End diff --
We should include more comments here. In particular, what sort order will
we get? Does this mimic some other databases behavior (i.e. Oracle)? Does it
deviate from that at all? Does Oracle follow some standard that we could point
to?
Also, please make sure to budget time to update our online reference
manual: https://phoenix.apache.org/language/functions.html. This lives in
phoenix.csv in our SVN repo as described here:
https://phoenix.apache.org/building_website.html
> Allow sorting on (Java) collation keys for non-English locales
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PHOENIX-4237
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-4237
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Shehzaad Nakhoda
> Fix For: 4.12.0
>
>
> Strings stored via Phoenix can be composed from a subset of the entire set of
> Unicode characters. The natural sort order for strings for different
> languages often differs from the order dictated by the binary representation
> of the characters of these strings. Java provides the idea of a Collator
> which given an input string and a (language) locale can generate a Collation
> Key which can then be used to compare strings in that natural order.
> Salesforce has recently open-sourced grammaticus. IBM has open-sourced ICU4J
> some time ago. These technologies can be combined to provide a robust new
> Phoenix function that can be used in an ORDER BY clause to sort strings
> according to the user's locale.
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