Github user ravipesala commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/1729#discussion_r159468842 --- Diff: integration/spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/carbondata/spark/util/CarbonScalaUtil.scala --- @@ -156,54 +158,156 @@ object CarbonScalaUtil { } /** - * Converts incoming value to UTF8String after converting data as per the data type. + * Converts incoming value to String after converting data as per the data type. * @param value Input value to convert - * @param dataType Datatype to convert and then convert to UTF8String + * @param dataType Datatype to convert and then convert to String * @param timeStampFormat Timestamp format to convert in case of timestamp datatypes - * @param dateFormat DataFormat to convert incase of DateType datatype + * @param dateFormat DataFormat to convert in case of DateType datatype * @param serializationNullFormat if this encounters in input data then data will * be treated as null - * @param fail If it is true then any conversion error will trhow error otherwise it will be - * filled with ull value - * @return converted UTF8String + * @return converted String */ - def convertToUTF8String(value: String, + def convertToString(value: String, --- End diff -- ok
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