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Veena Basavaraj commented on SQOOP-1769:
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An ENUM is a string object with a value chosen from a list of permitted values
that are enumerated explicitly in the column specification at table creation
time. It has these advantages:
I am not sure why it is LIST type in SQOOP IDF?
> Fix Enum to no inherit from list
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> Key: SQOOP-1769
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1769
> Project: Sqoop
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: sqoop2-framework
> Reporter: Veena Basavaraj
> Assignee: Veena Basavaraj
> Fix For: 1.99.5
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> Enum holds a set of options it supports, but anytime Enum will be just a
> single value.
> So it inherting from ListType and having a listType is wrong
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