[jira] [Commented] (CALCITE-4919) Add a function to parse a JSON string into a VARIANT object

["Alessandro Solimando (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Alessandro Solimando commented on CALCITE-4919:
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It seems that the new tickets around VARIANT are consistently filed as "Bug" while they look "Improvement" tickets to me, is this intentional? 

> Add a function to parse a JSON string into a VARIANT object
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CALCITE-4919
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-4919
>             Project: Calcite
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Julian Hyde
>            Priority: Major
>
> Add a function to parse a JSON string into a VARIANT object. This assumes that the VARIANT type (described in CALCITE-4918) has already been implemented.
> The email thread [Snowflake JSON support|https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@calcite.apache.org/msg17417.html] describes 4 independent tasks:
>  # Support for the ‘:’ (field reference) operator in the parser. We already have ‘::’ (Postgres-style cast) in the Babel parser. We’d have to check that ‘:’ does not introduce ambiguities
>  # Add a {{VARIANT}} datatype. This is similar to SQL Server’s {{VARIANT}} type and Java’s {{Object}} type in that it is a tagged union: it can be many sub-types, and you can check the type at runtime using operators such as {{{}TYPEOF{}}}.
>  # We already have the {{ITEM}} operator (written using '[ ]') that works on arrays and maps. We should make {{ITEM}} also work on {{{}VARIANT{}}}.
>  # Add a function to parse a JSON string to a {{VARIANT}} object.
> This case is task 4 on the list. Task 2 is CALCITE-4918. As the email notes, the tasks are fairly independent. You could do 2, 3, 4 without 1, and do 1 without 2, 3, 4.



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