Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3623#discussion_r112679780
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flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/plan/schema/DeferredTypeFlinkTableFunction.scala
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+package org.apache.flink.table.plan.schema
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method
+import java.util
+
+import org.apache.calcite.rel.`type`.{RelDataType, RelDataTypeFactory}
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation
+import org.apache.flink.table.functions.utils.UserDefinedFunctionUtils
+import org.apache.flink.table.functions.{TableFunction => FlinkUDTF}
+
+import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
+
+/**
+ * A Deferred Type is a Table Function which the result type hasn't been
determined yet.
+ * It will determine the result type after the arguments are passed.
+ *
+ * @param tableFunction The Table Function instance
+ * @param evalMethod The eval() method of the [[tableFunction]]
+ * @param implicitResultType Implicit result type.
+ */
+class DeferredTypeFlinkTableFunction(
+ val tableFunction: FlinkUDTF[_],
+ val evalMethod: Method,
+ val implicitResultType: TypeInformation[_])
+ extends FlinkTableFunction(tableFunction, evalMethod) {
+
+ val paramTypeInfos = evalMethod.getParameterTypes.toList
+
+ override def getResultType(arguments: util.List[AnyRef]):
TypeInformation[_] = {
+ determineResultType(arguments)
+ }
+
+ override def getRowType(
+ typeFactory: RelDataTypeFactory,
+ arguments: util.List[AnyRef]): RelDataType = {
+ val resultType = determineResultType(arguments)
+ val (fieldNames, fieldIndexes, _) =
UserDefinedFunctionUtils.getFieldInfo(resultType)
+ UserDefinedFunctionUtils.buildRelDataType(typeFactory, resultType,
fieldNames, fieldIndexes)
+ }
+
+ private def determineResultType(arguments: util.List[AnyRef]):
TypeInformation[_] = {
+ val resultType = tableFunction.getResultType(arguments, paramTypeInfos)
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Here we use the parameter types of `eval()`. This is different from the
logic in `UserDefinedFunctionUtils`. I think we should make this consistent
because users should expect consistent behavior.
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