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Dmitriy V. Ryaboy commented on PIG-893:
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Jeff,
Thanks for the contribution!
Just a few comments:
0) could you name your patch files *.patch? That makes them easier to review,
as the proper highlighting mode is chosen.
1) Other class names in the utils package imply that the class name for this
should be CastUtils
2) Spacing in POCast.java is a bit messed up. Please make sure all spacing is
to project conventions
3) In TestSchema -- Numberic isn't a word, you mean "Numeric" (no "b")
4) I am not sure about naming the methods chararrayToxxxx . Since they take
String as an argument, being in Java-land, I think it would be more
straightforward to say stringToxxx .
5) Implementation of the casts -- you call str.toBytes(), and hand off to
bytesToXXX method. That method, in turn, converts bytes back into a string,
and proceeds to do the conversion. That seems like redundant work. Wouldn't it
be better to have stringToXXX peform the conversion, and have bytesToXXX covert
to string, then call the stringToXXX method?
6) TestCharArray2Numeric.java -- the convention is to spell out "To" instead
of using the number 2
7) The tests in TestCharArray2Numeric look very similar to each other. Could
you pull out the common functionality so the code is only repeated once?
About the tests themselves: Since you are just testing conversions, this can
be a straightforward unit test -- make a few strings, assert that they convert
to the expected value. Hit the edge cases (overflows, special cases for
parsing, etc). We don't need to spin up a whole Pig query.
8) I don't like testing random values, as this creates tests that might
sometimes pass, and sometimes not. Recommend using known data for reproducible
test results.
9) You extracted functionality from Utf8StorageConverter by duplicating the
code; I would prefer to see Utf8StorageConverter modified to hand off
conversions to CastUtils
> support cast of chararray to other simple types
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>
> Key: PIG-893
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-893
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 0.4.0
> Reporter: Thejas M Nair
> Assignee: Jeff Zhang
> Fix For: 0.4.0
>
> Attachments: Pig_893_Patch.txt
>
>
> Pig should support casting of chararray to
> integer,long,float,double,bytearray. If the conversion fails for reasons such
> as overflow, cast should return null and log a warning.
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