[jira] [Created] (DRILL-5914) CSV (text) reader fails to parse quoted newlines in trailing fields

["Paul Rogers (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Paul Rogers created DRILL-5914:
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             Summary: CSV (text) reader fails to parse quoted newlines in trailing fields
                 Key: DRILL-5914
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5914
             Project: Apache Drill
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.11.0
            Reporter: Paul Rogers
            Assignee: Paul Rogers


Consider the existing `TestCsvHeader.testCountOnCsvWithHeader()` unit test. The input file is as follows:

```
Year,Make,Model,Description,Price
1997,Ford,E350,"ac, abs, moon",3000.00
1999,Chevy,"Venture ""Extended Edition""","",4900.00
1999,Chevy,"Venture ""Extended Edition, Very Large""",,5000.00
1996,Jeep,Grand Cherokee,"MUST SELL!
air, moon roof, loaded",4799.00
```

Note the newline in side the description in the last record.

If we do a `SELECT *` query, the file is parsed fine; we get 4 records.

If we do a `SELECT Year, Model` query, the CSV reader uses a special trick: it short-circuits reads on the three columns that are not wanted:

```
TextReader.parseRecord() {
...
        if (earlyTerm) {
          if (ch != newLine) {
            input.skipLines(1); // <-- skip lines
          }
          break;
        }
```

This method skips forward in the file, discarding characters until it hits a newline:

```
      do {
        nextChar();
      } while (lineCount < expectedLineCount);
```

Note that this code handles individual characters, it is not aware of per-field semantics. That is, unlike the higher-level parser methods, the `nextChar()` method does not consider newlines inside of quoted fields to be special.

This problem shows up acutely in a `SELECT COUNT(*)` style query that skips all fields; the result is we count the input as five lines, not four.



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