[jira] [Created] (IGNITE-4333) SQL engine does not preserve metadata about array content's type

["Alexander Paschenko (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Alexander Paschenko created IGNITE-4333:
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             Summary: SQL engine does not preserve metadata about array content's type
                 Key: IGNITE-4333
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-4333
             Project: Ignite
          Issue Type: Sub-task
          Components: SQL
    Affects Versions: 1.8
            Reporter: Alexander Paschenko
             Fix For: 2.0


This problem arises on SQL *SELECT* from grid table and on results page transfer over network.

First, when data is *SELECT* ed, {{org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.query.h2.IgniteH2Indexing.RowDescriptor#wrap}} does not look at array's component type and tries to convert any array to {{Object[]}} which turns to {{ClassCastException}} when array is of primitive type and erases metadata about its contents when its type is not primitive.

Then, when results page is transferred over network, array is wrapped into {{org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.query.h2.twostep.msg.GridH2Array}} which does not have any metadata too, so, even if we had returned primitive array from native H2's local *SELECT*, information about its primitiveness would be lost anyway, and it would be converted to, say, {{java.lang.Byte[]}} after all.

So, currently there's no way to *SELECT* a primitive array field via SQL.

Probably this could be fixed by changing {{GridH2Array}}, but this would break backward compatibility, so it's an open question for now.



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