[jira] [Assigned] (ASTERIXDB-2476) Support array slicing in SQL++

["Murtadha Hubail (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-2476?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Murtadha Hubail reassigned ASTERIXDB-2476:
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    Assignee: Hussain Towaileb

> Support array slicing in SQL++
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ASTERIXDB-2476
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-2476
>             Project: Apache AsterixDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: COMP - Compiler, FUN - Functions
>    Affects Versions: 0.9.5
>            Reporter: Till
>            Assignee: Hussain Towaileb
>            Priority: Major
>
> Some programming languages support array slicing - the ability to extract sub arrays from array, which would be useful in SQL++. E.g. to retrieve the 2 elements in the middle of {{["a","b","c","d"]}} one could write {{["a","b","c","d"][1:3]}} and get {{["b","c"]}}.
> To implement this, we should first add a function {{array_slice}} with 3 parameters:
>  # {{array}},
>  # {{start}}, and
>  # {{end}}.
> The function returns {{NULL}} if
>  * {{array}} is not an array,
>  * {{start}} is not a number _or_ greater than the length of the array, or
>  * {{end}} is not a number _or_ greater than the length of the array _or_ less than {{start}} _or_ {{MISSING}}.
> Otherwise {{array_slice(array, start, end)}} returns a subset of the source array, containing the elements from position {{start}} to {{end-1}}. 
> The element at {{start}} is included, while the element at {{end}} is not. 
> The array index starts with 0. 
> If {{end}} is {{MISSING}}, all elements from start to the end of the source array are included. 
> Negative positions are counted backwards from the end of the array.
> With that function we can extend the parser to support the slicing syntax {{array_expression [start_expression : [ end_expression ] ]}} and rewrite this syntax to a call of the function {{array_slice}} where a missing {{end_expression}} in the syntax is rewritten to passing a {{MISSING}} parameter as the 3rd argument.



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