com.akiban.sql.parser
Class BaseColumnNode

java.lang.Object
  com.akiban.sql.parser.QueryTreeNode
      com.akiban.sql.parser.ValueNode
          com.akiban.sql.parser.BaseColumnNode

All Implemented Interfaces:

Visitable

public class BaseColumnNode
extends ValueNode

A BaseColumnNode represents a column in a base table. The parser generates a BaseColumnNode for each column reference. A column refercence could be a column in a base table, a column in a view (which could expand into a complex expression), or a column in a subquery in the FROM clause. By the time we get to code generation, all BaseColumnNodes should stand only for columns in base tables.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.akiban.sql.parser.QueryTreeNode

AUTOINCREMENT_CREATE_MODIFY, AUTOINCREMENT_INC_INDEX, AUTOINCREMENT_IS_AUTOINCREMENT_INDEX, AUTOINCREMENT_START_INDEX

Constructor Summary

BaseColumnNode()

Method Summary

void	copyFrom(QueryTreeNode node) Fill this node with a deep copy of the given node.
String	getColumnName() Get the name of this column
String	getSchemaName() Get the user-supplied schema name for this column's table.
String	getTableName() Get the user-supplied table name of this column.
void	init(Object columnName, Object tableName, Object type) Initializer for when you only have the column name.
protected boolean	isEquivalent(ValueNode o) Tests if this node is equivalent to the specified ValueNode.
String	toString() Convert this object to a String.

Methods inherited from class com.akiban.sql.parser.ValueNode

getSourceResultColumn, getType, getTypeId, init, isBinaryEqualsOperatorNode, isBooleanFalse, isBooleanTrue, isConstantExpression, isInListProbeNode, isParameterNode, isRelationalOperator, isSameNodeType, setNullability, setType

Methods inherited from class com.akiban.sql.parser.QueryTreeNode

accept, convertDefaultNode, debugFlush, debugPrint, formatNodeString, getBeginOffset, getDebugOutput, getEndOffset, getNodeFactory, getNodeType, getNullNode, getParserContext, getStatementType, getUserData, init, init, init, init, init, init, init, init, init, init, init, init, isInstanceOf, makeTableName, makeTableName, nodeHeader, printLabel, printSubNodes, setBeginOffset, setDebugOutput, setEndOffset, setNodeType, setParserContext, setUserData, stackPrint, treePrint, treePrint, treePrint

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BaseColumnNode

public BaseColumnNode()

Method Detail

init

public void init(Object columnName,
                 Object tableName,
                 Object type)
          throws StandardException

Initializer for when you only have the column name.

Overrides:

init in class QueryTreeNode

Parameters:

columnName - The name of the column being referenced

tableName - The qualification for the column

type - DataTypeDescriptor for the column

Throws:

StandardException - Thrown on error

copyFrom

public void copyFrom(QueryTreeNode node)
              throws StandardException

Fill this node with a deep copy of the given node.

Overrides:

copyFrom in class ValueNode

Throws:

StandardException

toString

public String toString()

Convert this object to a String. See comments in QueryTreeNode.java for how this should be done for tree printing.

Overrides:

toString in class ValueNode

Returns:

This object as a String

getColumnName

public String getColumnName()

Get the name of this column

Overrides:

getColumnName in class ValueNode

Returns:

The name of this column

getTableName

public String getTableName()

Get the user-supplied table name of this column. This will be null if the user did not supply a name (for example, select a from t). The method will return B for this example, select b.a from t as b The method will return T for this example, select t.a from t

Overrides:

getTableName in class ValueNode

Returns:

The user-supplied name of this column. Null if no user- supplied name.

getSchemaName

public String getSchemaName()
                     throws StandardException

Get the user-supplied schema name for this column's table. This will be null if the user did not supply a name (for example, select t.a from t). Another example for null return value (for example, select b.a from t as b). But for following query select app.t.a from t, this will return APP

Overrides:

getSchemaName in class ValueNode

Returns:

The schema name for this column's table

Throws:

StandardException

isEquivalent

protected boolean isEquivalent(ValueNode o)

Tests if this node is equivalent to the specified ValueNode. Two ValueNodes are considered equivalent if they will evaluate to the same value during query execution.

This method provides basic expression matching facility for the derived class of ValueNode and it is used by the language layer to compare the node structural form of the two expressions for equivalence at bind phase.

Note that it is not comparing the actual row values at runtime to produce a result; hence, when comparing SQL NULLs, they are considered to be equivalent and not unknown.

One usage case of this method in this context is to compare the select column expression against the group by expression to check if they are equivalent. e.g.:

SELECT c1+c2 FROM t1 GROUP BY c1+c2

In general, node equivalence is determined by the derived class of ValueNode. But they generally abide to the rules below:

• The two ValueNodes must be of the same node type to be considered equivalent. e.g.: CastNode vs. CastNode - equivalent (if their args also match), ColumnReference vs CastNode - not equivalent.
• If node P contains other ValueNode(s) and so on, those node(s) must also be of the same node type to be considered equivalent.
• If node P takes a parameter list, then the number of arguments and its arguments for the two nodes must also match to be considered equivalent. e.g.: CAST(c1 as INTEGER) vs CAST(c1 as SMALLINT), they are not equivalent.
• When comparing SQL NULLs in this context, they are considered to be equivalent.
• If this does not apply or it is determined that the two nodes are not equivalent then the derived class of this method should return false; otherwise, return true.

Specified by:

isEquivalent in class ValueNode

Parameters:

o - the node to compare this ValueNode against.

Returns:

true if the two nodes are equivalent, false otherwise.