Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2653#discussion_r88336779
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flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/api/table/functions/utils/UserDefinedFunctionUtils.scala
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@@ -162,24 +191,107 @@ object UserDefinedFunctionUtils {
}
/**
+ * Internal method of [[ScalarFunction#getResultType()]] that does some
pre-checking and uses
+ * [[TypeExtractor]] as default return type inference.
+ */
+ def getResultType(
+ tableFunction: TableFunction[_],
+ signature: Array[Class[_]])
+ : TypeInformation[_] = {
+ // find method for signature
+ val evalMethod = tableFunction.getEvalMethods
+ .find(m => signature.sameElements(m.getParameterTypes))
+ .getOrElse(throw new ValidationException("Given signature is
invalid."))
+
+ val userDefinedTypeInfo = tableFunction.getResultType
+ if (userDefinedTypeInfo != null) {
+ userDefinedTypeInfo
+ } else {
+ try {
+ TypeExtractor.getForClass(evalMethod.getReturnType)
+ } catch {
+ case ite: InvalidTypesException =>
+ throw new ValidationException(
+ s"Return type of table function '$this' cannot be " +
+ s"automatically determined. Please provide type information
manually.")
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
* Returns the return type of the evaluation method matching the given
signature.
*/
def getResultTypeClass(
- scalarFunction: ScalarFunction,
+ function: EvaluableFunction,
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I think `UserDefinedFunction` would be better.
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