Github user ravipesala commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/1732#discussion_r159461116
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core/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/core/util/DataTypeUtil.java ---
@@ -775,4 +775,25 @@ public static DataType valueOf(String name) {
}
}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+ /**
+ * Method to type case the data based on modified data type. This method
will used for
+ * retrieving the data after change in data type restructure operation
+ *
+ * @param data
+ * @param restructuredDataType
+ * @param currentDataOffset
+ * @param length
+ * @return
+ */
+ public static long getDataBasedOnRestructuredDataType(byte[] data,
DataType restructuredDataType,
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This case won't exist from short to int or float to double?. Here I can see
handling only for INT to LONG
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