Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2653#discussion_r88336779 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/api/table/functions/utils/UserDefinedFunctionUtils.scala --- @@ -162,24 +191,107 @@ object UserDefinedFunctionUtils { } /** + * Internal method of [[ScalarFunction#getResultType()]] that does some pre-checking and uses + * [[TypeExtractor]] as default return type inference. + */ + def getResultType( + tableFunction: TableFunction[_], + signature: Array[Class[_]]) + : TypeInformation[_] = { + // find method for signature + val evalMethod = tableFunction.getEvalMethods + .find(m => signature.sameElements(m.getParameterTypes)) + .getOrElse(throw new ValidationException("Given signature is invalid.")) + + val userDefinedTypeInfo = tableFunction.getResultType + if (userDefinedTypeInfo != null) { + userDefinedTypeInfo + } else { + try { + TypeExtractor.getForClass(evalMethod.getReturnType) + } catch { + case ite: InvalidTypesException => + throw new ValidationException( + s"Return type of table function '$this' cannot be " + + s"automatically determined. Please provide type information manually.") + } + } + } + + /** * Returns the return type of the evaluation method matching the given signature. */ def getResultTypeClass( - scalarFunction: ScalarFunction, + function: EvaluableFunction, --- End diff -- I think `UserDefinedFunction` would be better.
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