Github user brendanstennett commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1036#discussion_r151267136
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contrib/gis/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/expr/fn/impl/gis/STAsJson.java
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+/*
+ * Wrapper for ESRI ST_AsJson to convert geometry into REST Json.
+ * Emulates functionality from spatial-framework-for-hadoop.
+ */
+package org.apache.drill.exec.expr.fn.impl.gis;
+
+import javax.inject.Inject;
+
+import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.DrillSimpleFunc;
+import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.FunctionTemplate;
+import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.Output;
+import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.Param;
+import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.holders.VarBinaryHolder;
+import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.holders.VarCharHolder;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.DrillBuf;
+
+@FunctionTemplate(name = "st_as_json", scope =
FunctionTemplate.FunctionScope.SIMPLE,
+ nulls = FunctionTemplate.NullHandling.NULL_IF_NULL)
+public class STAsJson implements DrillSimpleFunc {
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@ChrisSandison I would suggest naming this `ST_AsGeoJSON` to stay in line
with the conventions set forth in PostGIS.
http://www.postgis.net/docs/ST_AsGeoJSON.html
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