flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/api/functions/UserDefinedFunction.java

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package org.apache.flink.table.api.functions;

import org.apache.flink.table.functions.utils.UserDefinedFunctionUtils;

import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Base class for all user-defined functions such as scalar functions, table functions,
 * or aggregation functions.
 */
public abstract class UserDefinedFunction implements Serializable {

	/**
	 * Setup method for user-defined function. It can be used for initialization work.
	 *
	 * <p>By default, this method does nothing.
	 */
	public void open(FunctionContext context) throws Exception {
	}

	/**
	 * Tear-down method for user-defined function. It can be used for clean up work.
	 *
	 * <p>By default, this method does nothing.
	 */
	public void close() throws Exception {
	}

	/**
	 * @return true if a call to this function is guaranteed to always return
	 *         the same result given the same parameters; true is assumed by default
	 *         if user's function is not pure functional, like random(), date(), now()...
	 *         isDeterministic must return false
	 */
	public boolean isDeterministic() {
		return true;
	}

	public final String functionIdentifier() throws Exception {
		String md5 = DigestUtils.md5Hex(UserDefinedFunctionUtils.serialize(this));
		return getClass().getCanonicalName().replace('.', '$').concat("$").concat(md5);
	}

	/**
	 * User can use this function to name function for visualization and logging.
	 */
	public String toString() {
		return getClass().getSimpleName();
	}
}