TheNeuralBit commented on a change in pull request #15733:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/15733#discussion_r740522140



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+package org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sbe;
+
+import static org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sbe.Schemas.TZ_TIME_SCHEMA;
+import static 
org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sbe.Schemas.TimeFieldNames.TIME_FIELD_NAME;
+import static 
org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sbe.Schemas.TimeFieldNames.TIME_ZONE_HOUR_FIELD_NAME;
+import static 
org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sbe.Schemas.TimeFieldNames.TIME_ZONE_MINUTE_FIELD_NAME;
+import static 
org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sbe.Schemas.TimeFieldNames.UNIT_FIELD_NAME;
+import static org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sbe.Schemas.UTC_TIME_SCHEMA;
+import static 
org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
+
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
+import java.time.OffsetTime;
+import java.time.ZoneOffset;
+import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
+import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.Row;
+import org.checkerframework.checker.initialization.qual.Initialized;
+import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.NonNull;
+import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;
+
+/**
+ * Representations of SBE value types.
+ *
+ * <p>These are convertible to/from a {@link Row} that is a direct mapping of 
an SBE composite type.
+ */
+public final class TimeValues {

Review comment:
       What I meant by make progress was to build other infrastructure, like 
the `PayloadSerializerProvider`, that only supports the unambiguous types (for 
now).
   
   If we must provide types that have the same semantic meaning as SBE, I do 
think it's preferable to define concrete types (as you had before) rather than 
using `Row`. `Row` is supposed to be an implementation detail - we aim to 
create APIs where users don't need to interact with it directly. I just think 
we need to be careful creating these types, as users may come to expect 
date/time library-like functionality. If we're clear from the outset that these 
are intended to be simple containers to faithfully represent SBE data, that 
could be ok.
   
   However that solution would still have drawback (2) - the types would have 
little utility outside of SBE. What if a user wanted to use these types in a 
`SqlTransform`, or write them to Avro, or take data from one of those sources 
and write it as SBE? Ideally they could do that without boilerplate to convert 
between SBE-native date/time types and standard types. This doesn't need to be 
a blocker, but it's something to think about.




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