[jira] [Comment Edited] (SQOOP-1769) Fix Enum to no inherit from list

["Veena Basavaraj (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Veena Basavaraj edited comment on SQOOP-1769 at 11/21/14 12:38 AM:
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https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/refman-5.6-en/enum.html
An ENUM is a string object with a value chosen from a list of permitted values that are enumerated explicitly in the column specification at table creation time. It has these advantages: 

I am not sure why it is LIST type in SQOOP IDF?


was (Author: vybs):
An ENUM is a string object with a value chosen from a list of permitted values that are enumerated explicitly in the column specification at table creation time. It has these advantages: 

I am not sure why it is LIST type in SQOOP IDF?

> Fix Enum to no inherit from list
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SQOOP-1769
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1769
>             Project: Sqoop
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: sqoop2-framework
>            Reporter: Veena Basavaraj
>            Assignee: Veena Basavaraj
>             Fix For: 1.99.5
>
>
> Enum holds a set of options it supports, but anytime Enum will be just a single value.
> So it inherting from ListType and having a listType is wrong



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