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Till Rohrmann updated FLINK-4241:
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    Description: 
The exceptions thrown when giving wrong SQL syntax to Flink's SQL parser is 
very cryptic and should be improved. For example, the following code snippet:

{code}
inputTable.filter("a == 0");
{code}

gives the following exception:

{code}
Exception in thread "main" 
org.apache.flink.api.table.ExpressionParserException: Could not parse 
expression: [1.4] failure: `-' expected but `=' found

a == 0
   ^
        at 
org.apache.flink.api.table.expressions.ExpressionParser$.parseExpression(ExpressionParser.scala:355)
        at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table.filter(table.scala:161)
        at 
com.dataartisans.streaming.SimpleTableAPIJob.main(SimpleTableAPIJob.java:32)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
{code}

>From this description it is very hard to understand that {{==}} is not a valid 
>operator.

Another example is:

{code}
inputTable.select("*");
{code}

which gives

{code}
Exception in thread "main" 
org.apache.flink.api.table.ExpressionParserException: Could not parse 
expression: Base Failure
        at 
org.apache.flink.api.table.expressions.ExpressionParser$.parseExpressionList(ExpressionParser.scala:342)
        at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table.select(table.scala:103)
        at 
com.dataartisans.streaming.SimpleTableAPIJob.main(SimpleTableAPIJob.java:33)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
{code}

I think it would considerably improve user experience if we print more helpful 
parsing exceptions.



  was:
The exceptions thrown when giving wrong SQL syntax to Flink's SQL parser is 
very cryptic and should be improved. For example, the following code snippet:

{code}
inputTable.filter("a == 0");
{code}

gives the following exception:

{code}
Exception in thread "main" 
org.apache.flink.api.table.ExpressionParserException: Could not parse 
expression: [1.4] failure: `-' expected but `=' found

a == 0
   ^
        at 
org.apache.flink.api.table.expressions.ExpressionParser$.parseExpression(ExpressionParser.scala:355)
        at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table.filter(table.scala:161)
        at 
com.dataartisans.streaming.SimpleTableAPIJob.main(SimpleTableAPIJob.java:32)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
{code}

>From this description it is very hard to understand that {{==}} is not a valid 
>operator.

I think it would considerably improve user experience if we print more helpful 
parsing exceptions.




> Cryptic expression parser exceptions
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-4241
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4241
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Table API & SQL
>    Affects Versions: 1.1.0
>            Reporter: Till Rohrmann
>
> The exceptions thrown when giving wrong SQL syntax to Flink's SQL parser is 
> very cryptic and should be improved. For example, the following code snippet:
> {code}
> inputTable.filter("a == 0");
> {code}
> gives the following exception:
> {code}
> Exception in thread "main" 
> org.apache.flink.api.table.ExpressionParserException: Could not parse 
> expression: [1.4] failure: `-' expected but `=' found
> a == 0
>    ^
>       at 
> org.apache.flink.api.table.expressions.ExpressionParser$.parseExpression(ExpressionParser.scala:355)
>       at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table.filter(table.scala:161)
>       at 
> com.dataartisans.streaming.SimpleTableAPIJob.main(SimpleTableAPIJob.java:32)
>       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>       at 
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>       at 
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
>       at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
> {code}
> From this description it is very hard to understand that {{==}} is not a 
> valid operator.
> Another example is:
> {code}
> inputTable.select("*");
> {code}
> which gives
> {code}
> Exception in thread "main" 
> org.apache.flink.api.table.ExpressionParserException: Could not parse 
> expression: Base Failure
>       at 
> org.apache.flink.api.table.expressions.ExpressionParser$.parseExpressionList(ExpressionParser.scala:342)
>       at org.apache.flink.api.table.Table.select(table.scala:103)
>       at 
> com.dataartisans.streaming.SimpleTableAPIJob.main(SimpleTableAPIJob.java:33)
>       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>       at 
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>       at 
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
>       at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
> {code}
> I think it would considerably improve user experience if we print more 
> helpful parsing exceptions.



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