Seems fair & easy to support. Can somebody open a JIRA ticket and patch?


On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Takeshi Yamamuro <linguin....@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since `Literal#default` can handle array types, it seems there is no
> strong reason
> for unsupporting the type in `Literal#apply`, that is, `functions.lit`.
> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/
> catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/
> expressions/literals.scala#L119
>
> // maropu
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Jason White <jason.wh...@shopify.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Continuing to dig, I encountered:
>> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/catalyst/
>> src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions
>> /LiteralExpressionSuite.scala#L125
>>
>>   // TODO(davies): add tests for ArrayType, MapType and StructType
>>
>> I guess others have thought of this already, just not implemented yet. :)
>>
>> For others reading this thread, someone suggested using a SQL UDF to
>> return
>> the constant - this works as a hack for now.
>>
>>
>>
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