Hi Rob, thank you for taking a look on this issue! I don't think that this will break anything as the number will still be a number just in different format. But just in case, what about making this adjustable from command line?
Jarcec On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:46:59PM +0000, David Robson wrote: > 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: > ---------------------------------- > > 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". > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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