[jira] [Updated] (CRUNCH-651) (WIP) Kotlin API for Crunch

["Gabriel Reid (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gabriel Reid updated CRUNCH-651:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 1.0.0)

> (WIP) Kotlin API for Crunch
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>                 Key: CRUNCH-651
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-651
>             Project: Crunch
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: David Whiting
>            Assignee: David Whiting
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: 0001-WIP-Kotlin-API-for-Crunch.patch
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> Motivation: Kotlin has recently gained a lot of popularity and people are really starting to talk about it and see its merits; and language-wise it should be perfect for writing data-transformation code as it has better support for functional programming and useful type stuff than Java, without the performance overhead and implicit mysteries of Scala.
> Attached is a patch for a proof-of-concept Kotlin API for Crunch. It makes heavy use of inlined functions so that the compiled bytecode ends up looking a lot like standard Crunch code (I ran it through a decompiler), and should be just as performant.
> It also uses reified type parameters to construct PTypes automatically from TypeReferences, so in most cases it's not necessary to provide a PType for transformations.
> See the example job and unit tests to get a quick idea of what kind of thing is possible.
> I've decided to share an unfinished patch with you all so that I can get some feedback if we think this is a useful addition to the Crunch project at all, and whether the general approach seems sensible.
> Still left TODO (if we decide to finish this and add it):
> * PGroupedTable API
> * Extensible PType inference (I'm thinking something like register<MyType>(pTypeForMyType))
> * Support for data classes via kotlin-reflect
> * Fill in any other gaps (mapWithContext, counters, ... ?)



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