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Jorge Machado commented on SPARK-26902:
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what about Supporting the interface Temporal ?
> Support java.time.Instant as an external type of TimestampType
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> Key: SPARK-26902
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-26902
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 2.4.0
> Reporter: Maxim Gekk
> Assignee: Maxim Gekk
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.0
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> Currently, Spark supports the java.sql.Date and java.sql.Timestamp types as
> external types for Catalyst's DateType and TimestampType. It accepts and
> produces values of such types. Since Java 8, base classes for dates and
> timestamps are java.time.Instant, java.time.LocalDate/LocalDateTime, and
> java.time.ZonedDateTime. Need to add new converters from/to Instant.
> The Instant type holds epoch seconds (and nanoseconds), and directly reflects
> to Catalyst's TimestampType.
> Main motivations for the changes:
> - Smoothly support Java 8 time API
> - Avoid inconsistency of calendars used inside Spark 3.0 (Proleptic Gregorian
> calendar) and inside of java.sql.Timestamp (hybrid calendar - Julian +
> Gregorian).
> - Make conversion independent from current system timezone.
> In case of collecting values of Date/TimestampType, the following SQL config
> can control types of returned values:
> - spark.sql.catalyst.timestampType with supported values
> "java.sql.Timestamp" (by default) and "java.time.Instant"
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