Github user ravipesala commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/1469#discussion_r153061021
--- Diff:
integration/spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/CarbonReflectionUtils.scala
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+/*
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+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.util
+
+import java.util
+
+import scala.reflect.runtime._
+import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
+
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.TableIdentifier
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis.UnresolvedRelation
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.LogicalPlan
+
+import org.apache.carbondata.common.logging.LogServiceFactory
+
+/**
+ * Reflection APIs
+ */
+
+object CarbonReflectionUtils {
+
+ private val LOGGER =
LogServiceFactory.getLogService(this.getClass.getCanonicalName)
+
+ private val rm = universe.runtimeMirror(getClass.getClassLoader)
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the field val from a object through reflection.
+ * @param name - name of the field being retrieved.
+ * @param obj - Object from which the field has to be retrieved.
+ * @tparam T
+ * @return
+ */
+ def getField[T: TypeTag: reflect.ClassTag](name: String, obj: T): Any = {
+ val im = rm.reflect(obj)
+
+ im.symbol.typeSignature.members.find(
+ _.name.toString.equals(name)).map(
+ l => im.reflectField(l.asTerm).get.asInstanceOf[LogicalPlan]
--- End diff --
no need to type cast
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