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Ruidong Li commented on FLINK-7194:
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{{ScalarFunction.getResultType()}} has parameters while {{TableFunction}} and
{{AggregateFunction}} does not, users can implement different
{{ScalarFunction.eval()}} with different signatures, such as {{def eval(x:
Int): Boolean}} or {{def eval(x: String): String}}, so the
{{ScalarFunction.getResultType()}}' s return value is determined by parameters.
> Add getResultType and getAccumulatorType to AggregateFunction
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>
> Key: FLINK-7194
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7194
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Table API & SQL
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Reporter: Fabian Hueske
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> FLINK-6725 and FLINK-6457 proposed to remove methods with default
> implementations such as {{getResultType()}}, {{toString()}}, or
> {{requiresOver()}} from the base classes of user-defined methods (UDF, UDTF,
> UDAGG) and instead offer them as contract methods which are dynamically
> In PR [#3993|https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3993] I argued that these
> methods have a fixed signature (in contrast to the {{eval()}},
> {{accumulate()}} and {{retract()}} methods) and should be kept in the
> classes. For users that don't need these methods, this doesn't make a
> difference because the methods are not abstract and have a default
> implementation. For users that need to override the methods it makes a
> difference, because they get IDE and compiler support when overriding them
> and the cannot get the signature wrong.
> Consequently, I propose to add {{getResultType()}} and
> {{getAccumulatorType()}} as methods with default implementation to
> {{AggregateFunction}}. This will make the interface of {{AggregateFunction}}
> more consistent with {{ScalarFunction}} and {{TableFunction}}.
> What do you think [~shaoxuan], [~RuidongLi] and [~jark]?
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