Hi,

I was thinking of changing this to use "toPlainString()" instead of 
"toString()" on BigDecimals as it seems confusing to have some numbers stored 
as normal decimals and other stored in scientific notation.

Does anyone have any input on this? Do you think this would break anyone's 
processes? It seems like either one can be converted to a BigDecimal using the 
constructor so I don't think it will break anything. Is anyone storing 
BigDecimals in HBase and has any input?

Thanks,

David Robson
Software Developer
Dell | R&D, Quest Software
office +61 3 9811 8082

Quest Software is now part of Dell


-----Original Message-----
From: David Robson (JIRA) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2013 10:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [jira] [Created] (SQOOP-830) HBase import formatting BigDecimal 
inconsistently

David Robson created SQOOP-830:
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             Summary: HBase import formatting BigDecimal inconsistently
                 Key: SQOOP-830
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-830
             Project: Sqoop
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: David Robson


When importing into HBase the toString() method is called on every field via 
the ToStringPutTransformer class.
When the field is mapped as a BigDecimal - as it is with number fields in 
Oracle - this results in inconsistent formats in HBase.
For example - create the following in Oracle:

CREATE TABLE employee(id number primary key, test_number number); INSERT INTO 
employee values(1, 0.000001); INSERT INTO employee values(2, 0.0000001); COMMIT;

Then run an import:

sqoop import --connect jdbc:oracle:thin:@//HOSTNAME/SERVICE --username USERNAME 
--table EMPLOYEE --password PASSWORD --hbase-table EMPLOYEE --column-family tst 
--hbase-create-table

The value for row 1 is "0.000001" while row 2 is "1E-7".

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