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[jira] [Created] (FLINK-25428) Expose complex types CAST to String
Francesco Guardiani created FLINK-25428:
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Summary: Expose complex types CAST to String
Key: FLINK-25428
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25428
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Sub-task
Components: Table SQL / Planner
Reporter: Francesco Guardiani
Attachments: cast_function_it_case.patch, logical_type_casts.patch
Right now we have all the casting rules for collection, structured and raw types to string, that is we have logic to stringify the following types:
* ARRAY
* MAP
* MULTISET
* ROW
* STRUCTURED
* RAW
Unfortunately these don't work, for different reasons, notably:
* We need to support these combinations in {{LogicalTypeCasts}} (check the attached patch)
* For some of them Calcite applies its casting validation logic and marks them as invalid
* For MULTISET and STRUCTURED, there are issues specific to Table API and its expression stack, which cannot correctly convert the values to literal
You can check all these errors by applying the attached patch to the cast function it cases.
We need to fix these issues, so users can use SQL and Table API to cast these values to string.
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