Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2303#discussion_r79798925 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/types/parser/FieldParser.java --- @@ -174,6 +174,62 @@ protected void setErrorState(ParseErrorState error) { public ParseErrorState getErrorState() { return this.errorState; } + + /** + * Returns the end position of a string with a numeric format (like XXXX-XX-XX). Sets the error state if the + * string contains leading/trailing whitespaces or if the column is empty. + * + * @return the end position of the string or -1 if an error occurred + */ + public final int formattedStringEndPos(byte[] bytes, int startPos, int limit, byte[] delimiter) { + int len = startPos; + + final int delimLimit = limit - delimiter.length + 1; + + while (len < limit) { + if (len < delimLimit && delimiterNext(bytes, len, delimiter)) { + if (len == startPos) { + setErrorState(ParseErrorState.EMPTY_COLUMN); + return -1; + } + break; + } + len++; + } + + if (len > startPos && + (Character.isWhitespace(bytes[startPos]) || Character.isWhitespace(bytes[(len - 1)]))) { + setErrorState(ParseErrorState.NUMERIC_VALUE_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER); + return -1; + } + + return len; + } + + /** + * Returns a string with a numeric format (like XXXX-XX-XX). Throws an exception if the --- End diff -- Why is this method specific for numeric formats?
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