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<h2 title="Interface VariantReader" class="title">Interface VariantReader</h2>
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<pre>public interface <span class="typeNameLabel">VariantReader</span>
extends <a href="../../../../../../org/apache/drill/exec/vector/accessor/ColumnReader.html" title="interface in org.apache.drill.exec.vector.accessor">ColumnReader</a></pre>
<div class="block">Reader for a Drill "union vector." The union vector is presented
as a reader over a set of variants. In the old Visual Basic world,
"the Variant data type is a tagged union that can be used to
represent any other data type." The term is used here to avoid
confusion with the "union operator" which is something entirely
different.
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At read time, the set of possible types is fixed. A request to
obtain a reader for an unused type returns a null pointer.
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This reader is essentially a map of types: it allows access to
type-specific readers for the set of types supported in the
current vector. A client checks the type of each value, then
uses the proper type-specific reader to access that value.</div>
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<dd><code>VariantWriter}</code></dd>
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<td class="colFirst"><code><a href="../../../../../../org/apache/drill/exec/vector/accessor/ArrayReader.html" title="interface in org.apache.drill.exec.vector.accessor">ArrayReader</a></code></td>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>boolean</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../../../org/apache/drill/exec/vector/accessor/VariantReader.html#hasType-org.apache.drill.common.types.TypeProtos.MinorType-">hasType</a></span>(<a href="../../../../../../org/apache/drill/common/types/TypeProtos.MinorType.html" title="enum in org.apache.drill.common.types">TypeProtos.MinorType</a>&nbsp;type)</code>
<div class="block">Determine if a given type is supported by the union vector
for some value in the result set.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code><a href="../../../../../../org/apache/drill/exec/vector/accessor/ObjectReader.html" title="interface in org.apache.drill.exec.vector.accessor">ObjectReader</a></code></td>
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<div class="block">Determine if a given type is supported by the union vector
for some value in the result set.</div>
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<dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
<dd><code>type</code> - the Drill minor type to query</dd>
<dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
<dd><tt>true</tt> if a reader for the given type is available,
<tt>false</tt> if a request for a reader of that type will return
<tt>null</tt>.</dd>
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<div class="block">Return the member reader for the given type. The type must be a member
of the union. Allows caching readers across rows.</div>
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<div class="block">Return the scalar reader for the given type member. The type must be a
member of the union. Allows caching readers across rows. Identical to:<br>
<tt>>member(type).scalar()</tt></div>
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<div class="block">Return the data type of the current value. (What happens if the row is
null, must it be a null of some type?)</div>
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<div class="block">Return the appropriate scalar reader for the current value.</div>
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