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Mohammad Kamrul Islam updated HIVE-5306: ---------------------------------------- Status: Patch Available (was: Open) > Use new GenericUDF instead of basic UDF for UDFAbs class > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5306 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5306 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: UDF > Reporter: Mohammad Kamrul Islam > Assignee: Mohammad Kamrul Islam > Attachments: HIVE-5306.1.patch > > > GenericUDF class is the latest and recommended base class for any UDFs. > This JIRA is to change the current UDFAbs class extended from GenericUDF. > The general benefit of GenericUDF is described in comments as > "* The GenericUDF are superior to normal UDFs 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 using DeferedObject." -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira