Custom Comparators for the join.We can detect them not being of the same
type and coerce them to the bigger type

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:49 PM, webpaul <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> How are you thinking of doing it? Casting up should always be safe, so
> you could always cast any numeric type to double or something like
> that in order to compare. That way you could compare 1 with 1.00 also.
> Not sure if that is a perf problem or not though.
>
> On Feb 22, 11:33 am, Ayende Rahien <[email protected]> wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Simone Busoli <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Actually, when you're doing a join it would be a very cool feature to
> have.
> > > I spent quite some time wondering why the rows didn't join correctly,
> and it
> > > was because the field on which it was performing the join was an
> integer on
> > > one side and a byte on the other. So far, the solution has been to
> write
> > > tests which ensure that the two sides of the join have the same field
> types,
> > > but I would like to solve it at the RhinoETL level.
> >
> > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54, webpaul <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> Ok, mission accomplished then - Makes sense once you think about it. I
> > >> certainly don't have any burning need for it to work and the easy work
> > >> around is to cast one of the items as they are read in if it becomes
> > >> an issue so I think it's fine. Just wanted to check if that was a
> > >> desired thing or not.
> >
> > >> On Feb 21, 10:43 am, Simone Busoli <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > That was to point out the subtlety in the .net fx. I already
> discussed
> > >> it,
> > >> > please lookup "row equality" on the mailing list. I think this can
> be
> > >> > addressed in several ways, but didn't take the time to do it yet.
> >
> > >> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 17:13, webpaul <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> > > I looked at some recent changes and one of them was for checking
> row
> > >> > > equality. I noticed there was a specific test for an (int)1 not
> being
> > >> > > equal to a (byte)1 - is that the desired behavior or was the test
> put
> > >> > > in there just to demonstrate that subtlety? I did a little test
> and
> > >> > > was surprised to find the below .NET framework behavior, I would
> have
> > >> > > thought they would be equal:
> >
> > >> > > object a = (int)1;
> > >> > > object b = (byte)1;
> >
> > >> > > Assert.IsFalse(a.Equals(b));
> >
> > >> > > I'm guessing the framework just returns false if the types are
> > >> > > different in the Equals implementation.
> >
> > >> > > So I understand why the test behaves how it does, just curious if
> that
> > >> > > is the desired effect or just due to the above and you wanted it
> to be
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