Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/729#discussion_r102868884 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/physical/impl/statistics/AbstractMergedStatistic.java --- @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + * distributed with this work for additional information + * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * <p/> + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * <p/> + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ +package org.apache.drill.exec.physical.impl.statistics; + +import org.apache.drill.exec.vector.ValueVector; + +public abstract class AbstractMergedStatistic extends Statistic implements MergedStatistic { + @Override + public String getName() { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("getName() not implemented"); + } --- End diff -- The classic way to do this is: ``` public abstract String getName(); ``` Or, since this is implementing/extending some other class, just leave the method unimplemented. This way, the compiler will tell you that you forgot to implement a required method.
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