src/org/apache/pig/builtin/LCFIRST.java

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package org.apache.pig.builtin;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
import org.apache.pig.PigWarning;
import org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException;
import org.apache.pig.data.DataType;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.schema.Schema;

/**
 * lower-case the first character of a string
 */
public class LCFIRST extends EvalFunc<String> {
    @Override
    public String exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {
        if (input == null || input.size() == 0) {
            return null;
        }
        try {
            String str = (String) input.get(0);
            if (str == null) return null;
            if (str.length() == 0) return str;
            return Character.toLowerCase(str.charAt(0))+str.substring(1);
        } catch (ExecException e) {
            warn("Error reading input: " + e.getMessage(), PigWarning.UDF_WARNING_1);
            return null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Schema outputSchema(Schema input) {
        return new Schema(new Schema.FieldSchema(null, DataType.CHARARRAY));
    }

    @Override
    public boolean allowCompileTimeCalculation() {
        return true;
    }
}