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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-7526:
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[~thobbs] to review
> Defining UDFs using scripting language directly from CQL
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7526
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7526
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
> Assignee: Robert Stupp
> Fix For: 3.0
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> Attachments: 7526-full.txt, 7526-on-7562.txt
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> In CASSANDRA-7395 we'll introduce the ability to define user functions by
> dropping a java class server side. While this is a good first step and a good
> option to have in any case, it would be nice to provide a simpler way to
> define those functions directly from CQL. And while we probably don't want to
> re-invent a new programming language inside CQL, we can reuse one. Typically,
> with java 8, we could use nashorn. This would allow a syntax along the lines
> of:
> {noformat}
> CREATE FUNCTION sum (a bigint, b bigint) bigint AS { return a + b; }
> {noformat}
> Note that in this, everything before the AS will be parsed by us, which we'll
> probably want because we'll probably need to have the types of
> arguments/return in practice anyway, and it's a good idea to reuse CQL types.
> The expression after the AS will be given to Nashorn however.
> Please note that in theory we could ultimately support multiple language
> after the AS. However, I'd like to focus on supporting just one for this
> ticket and I'm keen on using javascript through Nashorn because as it's the
> one that will ship with java from now on, it feels like a safe default.
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