Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.5.0
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Description
This JIRA is related to DRILL-3806 but has a narrower scope, so I decided to create separate one.
The JsonReader has the method ensureAtLeastOneField() (see https://github.com/apache/drill/blob/master/exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/vector/complex/fn/JsonReader.java#L91) that ensures that when no columns are found, create an empty one and it chooses to create a nullable int column. One consequence is that queries of the following type fail:
select c1 from dfs.`mostlynulls.json`; ... ... | null | | null | Error: DATA_READ ERROR: Error parsing JSON - You tried to write a VarChar type when you are using a ValueWriter of type NullableIntWriterImpl. File /Users/asinha/data/mostlynulls.json Record 4097
In this file the first 4096 rows have NULL values for c1 followed by rows that have a valid string.
It would be useful for the Json reader to choose a less restrictive type such as varchar in order to allow more types of queries to run.
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Issue Links
- is related to
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DRILL-3806 add metadata for untyped null and simple type promotion
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