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Shravan Matthur Narayanamurthy updated PIG-427:
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Attachment: 427.patch
> casting parameters of a UDF
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> Key: PIG-427
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-427
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: types_branch
> Reporter: Olga Natkovich
> Assignee: Shravan Matthur Narayanamurthy
> Fix For: types_branch
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> Attachments: 427.patch
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> Currently if we have a UDF that declares via getArgToFuncMapping that it can
> only handle a subset of types, passing any other types to the function would
> result in an error. However, some types can be promoted to others and it
> would be useful if typechecker to perform best fit cast. For instance, if the
> input parameter has type of Long and the UDF support Int and Double, the code
> should cast the paraneter into Double.
> This would be very useful for conversion of the UDFs from the piigybank to
> the new code.
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