Hi John,

You're mentioning that Flink doesn't support UNNEST, but it does [1]. Would
this work for you?

Best regards,

Martijn

[1]
https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.15/docs/dev/table/sql/queries/joins/#array-expansion


Op ma 13 jun. 2022 om 13:55 schreef John Tipper <john_tip...@hotmail.com>:

> 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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