[jira] Commented: (HIVE-471) A UDF for simple reflection

["Ashish Thusoo (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ashish Thusoo commented on HIVE-471:
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nice idea. I like the concept.

You probably should use GenericUDF framework instead of the UDF framework. That way you will be easily able to pass variable number of arguments to the function.


> A UDF for simple reflection
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-471
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-471
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Edward Capriolo
>            Assignee: Edward Capriolo
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.4.0
>
>         Attachments: hive-471.diff
>
>
> There are many methods in java that are static and have no arguments or can be invoked with one simple parameter. More complicated functions will require a UDF but one generic one can work as a poor-mans UDF.
> {noformat}
> SELECT reflect("java.lang.String", "valueOf", 1), reflect("java.lang.String", "isEmpty")
> FROM src LIMIT 1;
> {noformat}

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