richardstartin commented on code in PR #8535: URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/8535#discussion_r850189527
########## pinot-common/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/common/function/scalar/DataTypeConversionFunctions.java: ########## @@ -32,6 +36,51 @@ public class DataTypeConversionFunctions { private DataTypeConversionFunctions() { } + @ScalarFunction(nullableParameters = true) + public static Object cast(Object value, String targetTypeLiteral) { + if (value == null || targetTypeLiteral == null) { + return value; + } + try { + Class<?> clazz = value.getClass(); + boolean isMultiValue = clazz.isArray() & clazz != byte[].class; + PinotDataType sourceType = isMultiValue + ? PinotDataType.getMultiValueType(clazz) + : PinotDataType.getSingleValueType(clazz); + PinotDataType targetDataType = convertTypeLiteralToDataType(targetTypeLiteral); + if (sourceType == STRING && EnumSet.of(INTEGER, LONG, INTEGER_ARRAY, LONG_ARRAY) + .contains(targetDataType)) { + if (String.valueOf(value).contains(".")) { + // convert integers via double to avoid parse errors + if (isMultiValue) { + return targetDataType.convert(DOUBLE_ARRAY.convert(value, sourceType), DOUBLE_ARRAY); + } + return targetDataType.convert(DOUBLE.convert(value, sourceType), DOUBLE); + } + } + return targetDataType.convert(value, sourceType); + } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { + throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown data type: " + targetTypeLiteral); + } + } + + private static PinotDataType convertTypeLiteralToDataType(String typeLiteral) { + String transformed = typeLiteral.toUpperCase(); + if ("INT".equals(transformed)) { + return INTEGER; + } + if ("INT[]".equals(transformed)) { + return INTEGER_ARRAY; Review Comment: I actually hadn't noticed there was also `PRIMITIVE_INTEGER_ARRAY` - let's just drop MV support to make this possible. Not sure how a user would even express an MV literal (though there could be compile time functions which produce MV values). -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@pinot.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@pinot.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@pinot.apache.org