[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (HIVE-45) Hive: GenericUDF and support of complex object

["Zheng Shao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Zheng Shao edited comment on HIVE-45 at 5/4/09 6:15 PM:
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Please see HIVE-164 for the interface of GenericUDF.

      was (Author: zshao):
    
{code}
public abstract class UDFTemplate {

  /**
   * Evaluate the template function given the parameters row and rowInspector. 
   * NOTE: If the ObjectInspectors of the parameters do not change, then result.oi cannot change as well.
   * @param parameters  the input parameters to the template function
   * @param result   result.o and result.oi will be set inside the method.
   */
  public abstract void evaluate(List<InspectableObject> parameters, InspectableObject result) throws HiveException;

  /**
   * Evaluate the result's ObjectInspector given the parameters' ObjectInspectors.
   * ObjectInspector encapsulates information about the object type and the methods to access the internal fields inside the object.
   * @param parameterInspectors the input parameters' ObjectInspectors to the template function
   * @return null if the template function does not accept such a list of parameters; otherwise the same 
   *     ObjectInspector as returned in result.oi in evaluate(...).
   */
  public abstract ObjectInspector evaluateInspector(List<ObjectInspector> parameterInspectors) throws HiveException;

}
{code}

  
> Hive: GenericUDF and support of complex object
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-45
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-45
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>            Assignee: Zheng Shao
>             Fix For: 0.4.0
>
>
> GenericUDF are more powerful than UDF in the following ways:
> 1. It can accept arguments of complex types, and return complex types.
> 2. It can accept variable length of arguments.
> 3. It can accept an infinite number of function signature - for example, it's easy to write a GenericUDF that accepts array<int>, array<array<int>> and so on (arbitrary levels of nesting).
> 4. It can do short-circuit evaluations. 

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