Github user ueshin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1586#discussion_r15503576
--- Diff:
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/stringOperations.scala
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@@ -209,6 +212,81 @@ case class EndsWith(left: Expression, right:
Expression)
}
/**
+ * A function that returns the number of bytes in an expression
+ */
+case class Length(child: Expression) extends UnaryExpression {
+
+ type EvaluatedType = Any
+
+ override def dataType = IntegerType
+
+ override def foldable = child.foldable
+
+ override def nullable = child.nullable
+
+ override def toString = s"Length($child)"
+
+ override def eval(input: Row): EvaluatedType = {
+ val string = child.eval(input)
+ if (string == null) {
+ null
+ } else if (!string.isInstanceOf[String]) {
+ string.toString.length
+ } else {
+ string.toString.getBytes.length
+ }
+ }
+
+}
+
+object StrlenConstants {
+ val DefaultEncoding = "ISO-8859-1"
+}
+
+/**
+ * A function that returns the number of characters in a string expression
+ */
+case class Strlen(child: Expression, encoding : Expression) extends
UnaryExpression
+ with Logging {
+
+ type EvaluatedType = Any
+
+ override def dataType = IntegerType
+
+ override def foldable = child.foldable
+
+ override def nullable = child.nullable
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Ah, this is not related to my prior comment.
I just mentioned that you should remove unnecessary `isInstanceOf` on my
prior comment.
After that, you changed the logic to return `null` if the exception is
thrown, so the nullability of this operator was also changed to `true`.
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