[jira] [Commented] (DRILL-5492) CSV with spaces for header uses spaces as field name

["Paul Rogers (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Paul Rogers commented on DRILL-5492:
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A variation on this bug. Consider this input file:

{code}
____,__,__
a,b,c
d,e,f
{code}

Where, again, the underscores represent spaces. The header parser returns:

{code}
["   ","  ","  "]
{code}

That is, three fields, each some number of spaces. And, query output is:

{code}
    ,  
a,c
d,f
{code}

Strangely, we pass three field headings into the {{FieldVarCharOutput}} constructor (all strings with blanks), but we only get the first and third fields in the output.

Expected the query to just fail due to blank headers.

> CSV with spaces for header uses spaces as field name
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DRILL-5492
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5492
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Paul Rogers
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Consider the same test case as in DRILL-5491, but with a slightly different input file:
> {code}
> ___
> a,b,c
> d,e,f
> {code}
> The underscores represent three spaces: use spaces in the real test.
> In this case, the code discussed in DRILL-5491 finds some characters and happily returns the following array:
> {code}
> ["   "]
> {code}
> The field name of three blanks is returned to the client to produce the following bizarre output:
> {code}
> 2 row(s):
>     
> a
> d
> {code}
> The blank line is normally the header, but the header here was considered to be three blanks. (In fact, the blanks are actually printed.)
> Since the blanks were considered to be a field, the file is assumed to have only one field, so only the first column was returned.
> The expected behavior is that spaces are trimmed from field names, so the field name list would be empty and a User Error thrown. (That is, it is confusing to the user why a blank line produces NPE, some produce the {{ExecutionSetupException}} shown in DRILL-5491, and some produce blank headings. Behavior should be consistent.



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