strange build problem with generated sources

[Dave Oshinsky <do...@commvault.com>]

Hi Drill-ers,

I am looking into fixing JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4184.  I've encountered a number of strange build problems along the way with my drill 1.4 snapshot, including inability to rebuild after running "mvn clean", no matter what I try.  So, I'm building from scratch for the second time, at least.  The latest problem really has me stumped at the moment.  I added a "forceBits(int,int)" method that I see in generated source file NullableDecimal28SparseVector.java (and NullableDecimal38SparseVector.java), but somehow this doesn't get compiled properly into the *.class and my build keeps failing as if the new forceBits method isn't there:



[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.2:compile (default-compile) on project drill-java-exec: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:

[ERROR] C:\apache\apache-drill-1.4.0\rebuild2\drill-1.4.0\exec\java-exec\src\main\java\org\apache\drill\exec\store\parquet\columnreaders\VarLengthColumnReaders.java:[108,29] error: cannot find symbol

[ERROR] symbol:   method forceBits(int,int)

[ERROR] location: variable nullableDecimal28Vector of type NullableDecimal28SparseVector [ERROR] C:\apache\apache-drill-1.4.0\rebuild2\drill-1.4.0\exec\java-exec\src\main\java\org\apache\drill\exec\store\parquet\columnreaders\VarLengthColumnReaders.java:[179,29] error: cannot find symbol



Can anyone suggest how to fix this without starting over from scratch in a new build node (again)?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.



I will send a separate email eventually regarding the design of my fix, which I know is only a short-term solution to the problem of handling variable width decimal fields in Parquet files.  To make a long story short, all the decimal vectors are fixed width vectors, which don't have the ability to "remember" varying sizes from one decimal field to the next.  I've hacked up something to "remember" the varying field sizes (BigDecimal array sizes) in NullableVarLengthValuesColumn and VarLengthValuesColumn, not in the decimal vectors.  This seems to work, though it's admittedly ugly.  However, I ran into a problem with nullable varying width decimal columns where the "isSet" always returns 0, as if the column is null, when it is not, and the sparse decimal data is present in the vector (but Drill won't send the decimal value, because it thinks it's null).  Hence the "forceBits" hack to try to work around this.  It seemed like I was close to running a successful Drill query on the varying width decimal Parquet data, but alas, I ran into (another) build problem.  I do have a LOT of questions as to why the decimal stuff was designed the way it is, but that's for another email....



Thanks,

Dave Oshinsky



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