Sorry, looks like I mismanaged tickets in JIRA. In fact, we implemented H2 part, but Ignite's part is not ready yet and is managed in IGNITE-4575 [1]. Ticket you mentioned was an umbrella.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-4575 On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org> wrote: > Vladimir, > > I am very confused. I thought we already had resolved this issue in this > ticket: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-3595 > > Can you clarify? > > D. > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Vladimir Ozerov <voze...@gridgain.com> > wrote: > > > Igniters, > > > > Currently we have limited support of binary enums. The main problem is > that > > we do not store any metadata about enum names. For this reason it is > > impossible to use enums in SQL even though H2 already supports it [1]. We > > need to improve enum metadata support and provide some additional API to > > register new enums in runtime. > > > > Proposed API: > > > > 1) Enum mappings can be defined statically in BinaryTypeConfiguration: > > > > class BinaryTypeConfiguration { > > boolean isEnum; // Old method > > *Map<String, Integer> enumValues;* // New method > > } > > > > 2) New enum could be registered through IgniteBinary (e.g. we will use it > > if enum is defined in CREATE TABLE statement). Elso it would be possible > to > > build enum using only name. > > > > interface IgniteBinary { > > BinaryObject buildEnum(String typeName, int ordinal); // > > Old > > *BinaryObject buildEnum(String typeName, String name); * > // > > New > > > > *BinaryType defineEnum(String typeName, Map<String, Integer> vals);* > // > > New > > } > > > > 3) BinaryObject will have new method "enumName": > > > > interface BinaryObject { > > enumOrdinal(); // Old > > *String enumName();* // New > > } > > > > 4) It would be possible to get the list of known values from BinaryType: > > > > interface BinaryType { > > boolean isEnum(); // Old > > *Collection<BinaryObject> enumValues();* // New > > } > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Vladimir. > > > > [1] https://github.com/h2database/h2database/pull/487/commits > > >