C++ SDK Documentation  9.0
Vertica::UDParser Class Referenceabstract

Parses an input stream into Vertica tuples (rows to be inserted into a table). More...

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Public Member Functions

virtual void destroy (ServerInterface &srvInterface, SizedColumnTypes &returnType)
 
virtual void destroy (ServerInterface &srvInterface, SizedColumnTypes &returnType, SessionParamWriterMap &udSessionParams)
 
virtual RejectedRecord getRejectedRecord ()
 
virtual bool isReadyToCooperate (ServerInterface &srvInterface)
 
virtual void prepareToCooperate (ServerInterface &srvInterface, bool isLeader)
 
virtual StreamState process (ServerInterface &srvInterface, DataBuffer &input, InputState input_state)=0
 
virtual void setup (ServerInterface &srvInterface, SizedColumnTypes &returnType)
 

Protected Member Functions

Portion getPortion ()
 

Protected Attributes

bool isParserApportionable
 
Portion portion
 
vint recordsAcceptedInBatch
 
bool seen_eob
 
std::string srcname
 
StreamWriterwriter
 

Detailed Description

Parses an input stream into Vertica tuples (rows to be inserted into a table).

A UDParser can be used with up to one UDSource and any number of UDfilters.

Member Function Documentation

virtual void Vertica::UDParser::destroy ( ServerInterface srvInterface,
SizedColumnTypes returnType 
)
inlinevirtual

UDParser::destroy()

Will be invoked during query execution, after the last time that process() is called on this UDParser instance for a particular input file.

May optionally be overridden to perform tear-down/destruction.

See UDParser::setup() for a note about the restartability of UDParsers.

Portion Vertica::UDParser::getPortion ( )
inlineprotected

Return a description of the portion of the input source which is being processed by the active load stack. This can be called by the UDParser implementation to determine how much data to process.

This can be invoked during setup(), process() or destroy().

The Portion object returned will be a valid portion if any part of the load stack is processing portions. This UDParser instance will see input states START_OF_PORTION and/or END_OF_PORTION if it is the stack element directly processing portions.

virtual RejectedRecord Vertica::UDParser::getRejectedRecord ( )
inlinevirtual

Returns information about the rejected record

virtual bool Vertica::UDParser::isReadyToCooperate ( ServerInterface srvInterface)
inlinevirtual

UDParser::isReadyToCooperate()

Called after UDParser::prepareToCooperate(), returns false if this parser is not yet ready to cooperate. Once this method returns true the parser can begin to cooperate. Default implementation returns true, override if some preparation is required before the parser can cooperate (e.g. a certain # of rows must be skipped).

virtual void Vertica::UDParser::prepareToCooperate ( ServerInterface srvInterface,
bool  isLeader 
)
inlinevirtual

UDParser::prepareToCooperate()

Notification to this parser that it should prepare to share parsing input with another. This can only happen when a parser has an associated chunker. Default implementation does nothing.

virtual StreamState Vertica::UDParser::process ( ServerInterface srvInterface,
DataBuffer input,
InputState  input_state 
)
pure virtual

UDParser::process()

Reads data from the input stream and produces tuples to be loaded. Vertica invokes this function repeatedly during query execution, until it returns DONE or until the query is canceled by the user.

Input: a stream of bytes.
Output: a stream of tuples.

On each invocation, process() will be given an input buffer. It should read data from that buffer, converting it to fields and tuples and writing those tuples via writer. Once it has consumed as much as it reasonably can (for example, once it has consumed the last complete row in the input buffer), it should return INPUT_NEEDED to indicate that more data is needed, or DONE to indicate that it has completed parsing this input stream and will not be reading more bytes from it.

If input_state == END_OF_FILE, then the last byte in input is the last byte in the input stream. Returning INPUT_NEEDED will not result in any new input appearing. process() should return DONE in this case as soon as this operator has finished producing all output that it is going to produce.

Note that input may contain null bytes, if the source file contains null bytes. Note also that input is NOT automatically null-terminated.

process() must not block indefinitely. If it cannot proceed for an extended period of time, it should return KEEP_GOING. It will be called again shortly. Failure to do this will, among other things, prevent the query from being canceled by the user.

Note that, unless INPUT_NEEDED is returned, input will be UNMODIFIED the next time process() is called. This means that pointers into the buffer will continue to be valid. It also means that input.offset may be set. So, in general, process() code should assume that buffers start at input.buf[input.offset].

Row Rejection

process() can "reject" a row, causing it to be logged by Vertica's rejected-rows mechanism. Rejected rows should not be emitted as tuples. All previous input must have been consumed by a call to process(). To reject a row, set input.offset to the size of the row, and return REJECT.

Returns
INPUT_NEEDED if this UDParser has more data to produce; DONE if has no more data to produce; REJECT to reject a row

Note that it is UNSAFE to maintain pointers or references to any of these arguments (or any other argument passed by reference into any other function in this API) beyond the scope of the function call in question. For example, do not store a reference to the server interface or the input block on an instance variable. Vertica may free and replace these objects.

virtual void Vertica::UDParser::setup ( ServerInterface srvInterface,
SizedColumnTypes returnType 
)
inlinevirtual

UDParser::setup()

Will be invoked during query execution, prior to the first time that process() is called on this UDParser instance for a particular input source.

May optionally be overridden to perform setup/initialzation.

Note that UDParsers MUST BE RESTARTABLE! If loading large numbers of files, a given UDParsers may be re-used for multiple files. Vertica follows the worker-pool design pattern: At the start of COPY execution, several Parsers and several Filters are instantiated per node, by calling the corresponding prepare() method multiple times. Each Filter/Parser pair is then internally assigned to an initial Source (UDSource or internal). At that point, setup() is called; then process() is called until it is finished; then destroy() is called. If there are still sources in the pool waiting to be processed, then the UDFilter/UDSource pair will be given a second Source; setup() will be called a second time, then process() until it is finished, then destroy(). This repeats until all sources have been read.

Member Data Documentation

StreamWriter* Vertica::UDParser::writer
protected

Writer to write parsed tuples to. Has the same API as PartitionWriter, from the UDT framework.