Hi all,

Flink doesn’t support the unnest() function, which takes an array and creates a 
row for each element in the array. I have column containing an array of 
map<str, str> and I’d like to implement my own unnest.

I try this as an initial do-nothing implementation:

@udtf(result_types=Datatypes.MAP(
    key_type=Datatypes.STRING(), value_type=Datatypes.STRING()))
def my_unnest(arr):
    return []

I get an error when Flink starts:

No match found for function signature my_unnest(<VARCHAR(2147483647), 
VARCHAR(2147483647)) MAP ARRAY>)

Is there something that I’m missing in my definition please?

Many thanks,

John

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