[jira] [Comment Edited] (SQOOP-1719) Schema Validation Rules between From and To Schema

["Qian Xu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Qian Xu edited comment on SQOOP-1719 at 11/13/14 7:13 AM:
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1. As the name implies, {{Matcher}} is actually used to determine which schema should be used for the input.
2. Good point [~vybs] There should be a real validator to check schema compatibility for incremental import.


was (Author: stanleyxu2005):
As the name implies, {{Matcher}} is actually used to determine which schema should be used for the input.

Good point [~vybs]] There should be a real validator to check schema compatibility for incremental import.

> Schema Validation Rules between From and To Schema
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SQOOP-1719
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1719
>             Project: Sqoop
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: sqoop2-framework
>            Reporter: Veena Basavaraj
>            Assignee: Veena Basavaraj
>             Fix For: 1.99.5
>
>
> Today we have a Matcher code that checks for existence of atleast one schema.
> {code}
> public Matcher(Schema fromSchema, Schema toSchema) {
>     if (fromSchema.isEmpty() && toSchema.isEmpty()) {
>       throw new SqoopException(MatcherError.MATCHER_0000, "Neither a FROM or TO schemas been provided.");
>     } else if (toSchema.isEmpty()) {
>       this.fromSchema = fromSchema;
>       this.toSchema = fromSchema;
>     } else if (fromSchema.isEmpty()) {
>       this.fromSchema = toSchema;
>       this.toSchema = toSchema;
>     } else {
>       this.fromSchema = fromSchema;
>       this.toSchema = toSchema;
>     }
>   }
> {code}
> if both exist, then in addition to this we need to validate that they both are compatible.
> For instance if we have From schema with a one column of type String and then a To schema with one column of type INTEGER, then we should warn/ fail to even start the JOB since it might not be recommended . These validation rules are not documented in Sqoop and if implemented should be configurable if possible externally per job.
> Second, such validation should happen before the job is submitted. But for that we need to get the schemas. so It may not be not be possible to avoid starting the job.
> NOTE: In 1.99.5 we do not yet support transformations, hence the schema's for the FROM and TO are static, i,e there is no way during the job execution for the TO source to tell that it would like to store the varchar data as binary.  If the FROM source has the "varchar" type, we will validate that the "TO" source is storing this in varchar or a suitable compatible type in the "TO" data source as well.
> If we allow transformation layer in between post 1.99.5 then we potentially can have the schema change during the job execution phase i.e have dynamic schema's created per job



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