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Pi Song updated PIG-143:
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    Description: 
This is  a place holder for me to come up with a complete proposal. In the mean 
time, I definitely need your opinions!!!

The basic concept is that now we do validation logic in parsing stage (for 
example, file existence checking) which I think is not clean and difficult to 
add new validation rules.

The way I propose briefly:-
- Only keep parsing logic in the parser and leave output of parsing logic being 
unchecked logical plans.
- Create a new class called LogicalPlanValidatorManager which is responsible 
for validation job.
- A new validation logic will be subclassing LogicalPlanValidator
- We can implement chaining of LogicalPlanValidator inside 
LogicalPlanValidatorManager to allow new LogicalPlanValidator to be added 
easily. When plugging in new logic, we do it here. Therefore a new 
LogicalPlanValidator can be implemented like a plug-in.

Here is a list of possible LogicalPlanValidators in my mind (Please add what 
you want):- 
- The first LogicalPlanValidator to be implemented is FileExistence validator 
which is from the current logic we have.
- Second LogicalPlanValidator is to sort out filename conflict (At the moment 
you can save/load same file over and over again in the same plan, this is very 
confusing. Possibly we should not allow same file name in any single plan?)
- Meta data checking + type system checking as mentioned in Pig-142

The common way to implement a LogicalPlanValidator is based on Visitor pattern. 
Whether this is universal for all cases or not, I need to think through more.

According to this, parsing errors will be detected first in the parsing stage. 
Errors from validations are detected in the priority LogicalPlanValidators are 
organized in LogicalPlanValidatorManager.

The merit of implementing this proposal will be based on the number of 
validation rules we actually need. If we don't have so many things to check, it 
will become just a nice feature that doesn't have much value. However, I 
believe at least it will make the parsing logic cleaner.

This proposal only applies to the LogicalPlan. For PhysicalPlan, where 
validation logics (backend specific) are required. The same concept can be 
applied.


  was:
This is  a place holder for me to come up with a complete proposal. In the mean 
time, I definitely need your opinions!!!

The basic concept is that now we do validation logic in parsing stage (for 
example, file existence checking) which I think is not clean and difficult to 
add new validation rules.

The way I propose briefly:-
- Only keep parsing logic in the parser and leave output of parsing logic being 
unchecked logical plans.
- Create a new class called LogicalPlanValidatorManager which is responsible 
for validation job.
- A new validation logic will be subclassing LogicalPlanValidator
- We can implement chaining of LogicalPlanValidator inside 
LogicalPlanValidatorManager to allow new LogicalPlanValidator to be added 
easily. When plugging in new logic, we do it here. Therefore a new 
LogicalPlanValidator can be implemented like a plug-in.

Here is a list of possible LogicalPlanValidators in my mind (Please add what 
you want):- 
- The first LogicalPlanValidator to be implemented is FileExistence validator 
which is from the current logic we have.
- Second LogicalPlanValidator is to sort out filename conflict (At the moment 
you can save/load same file over and over again in the same plan, this is very 
confusing. Possibly we should not allow same file name in any single plan?)
- Meta data checking + type system checking as mentioned in Pig-142

The common way to implement a LogicalPlanValidator is based on Visitor pattern. 
Whether this is universal for all cases or not, I need to think through more.

The merit of implementing this proposal will be based on the number of 
validation rules we actually need. If we don't have so many things to check, it 
will become just a nice feature that doesn't have much value. However, I 
believe at least it will make the parsing logic cleaner.

This proposal only applies to the LogicalPlan. For PhysicalPlan, where 
validation logics (backend specific) are required. The same concept can be 
applied.



> Proposal for refactoring of parsing logic in Pig
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-143
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-143
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Pi Song
>            Assignee: Pi Song
>
> This is  a place holder for me to come up with a complete proposal. In the 
> mean time, I definitely need your opinions!!!
> The basic concept is that now we do validation logic in parsing stage (for 
> example, file existence checking) which I think is not clean and difficult to 
> add new validation rules.
> The way I propose briefly:-
> - Only keep parsing logic in the parser and leave output of parsing logic 
> being unchecked logical plans.
> - Create a new class called LogicalPlanValidatorManager which is responsible 
> for validation job.
> - A new validation logic will be subclassing LogicalPlanValidator
> - We can implement chaining of LogicalPlanValidator inside 
> LogicalPlanValidatorManager to allow new LogicalPlanValidator to be added 
> easily. When plugging in new logic, we do it here. Therefore a new 
> LogicalPlanValidator can be implemented like a plug-in.
> Here is a list of possible LogicalPlanValidators in my mind (Please add what 
> you want):- 
> - The first LogicalPlanValidator to be implemented is FileExistence validator 
> which is from the current logic we have.
> - Second LogicalPlanValidator is to sort out filename conflict (At the moment 
> you can save/load same file over and over again in the same plan, this is 
> very confusing. Possibly we should not allow same file name in any single 
> plan?)
> - Meta data checking + type system checking as mentioned in Pig-142
> The common way to implement a LogicalPlanValidator is based on Visitor 
> pattern. Whether this is universal for all cases or not, I need to think 
> through more.
> According to this, parsing errors will be detected first in the parsing 
> stage. Errors from validations are detected in the priority 
> LogicalPlanValidators are organized in LogicalPlanValidatorManager.
> The merit of implementing this proposal will be based on the number of 
> validation rules we actually need. If we don't have so many things to check, 
> it will become just a nice feature that doesn't have much value. However, I 
> believe at least it will make the parsing logic cleaner.
> This proposal only applies to the LogicalPlan. For PhysicalPlan, where 
> validation logics (backend specific) are required. The same concept can be 
> applied.

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