[jira] [Assigned] (DRILL-836) Drill needs to return complex types (e.g., map and array) as a JSON string

["Aditya Kishore (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-836?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Aditya Kishore reassigned DRILL-836:
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    Assignee: Aditya Kishore  (was: DrillCommitter)

> Drill needs to return complex types (e.g., map and array) as a JSON string
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>                 Key: DRILL-836
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-836
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Execution - Operators, Execution - RPC
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0-BETA1
>            Reporter: George Chow
>            Assignee: Aditya Kishore
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 1.0.0-BETA1
>
>         Attachments: DRILL-836-Drill-needs-to-return-complex-types-e.g.-m.patch, DRILL-836-Drill-needs-to-return-complex-types-e.g.-m.patch, DRILL-836-Drill-needs-to-return-complex-types-e.g.-m.patch, DRILL-836-addendum-Drill-needs-to-return-complex-typ.patch
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> Drill needs to help users understand the available columns in a given HBase table's column-family. One way to do this is to implement the DESCRIBE command for a column-family. The purpose of this is to let Drill do the column sampling. The mandatory LIMIT clause specifies the sample size so as to throttle the number of columns returned.
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> Instead of the above narrow proposal, a general mechanism to return complex types in a JSON string so as to allow client tools (such as the ODBC driver) to operate on these complex types.
> Returning a map as JSON would provide transparency into HBase column-families and allow the ODBC driver to help surface the names of columns within a column-family.
> Returning an array as JSON would provide transparency into CSV files since that conveys the number of columns to the ODBC driver.



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