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package org.apache.pig.builtin;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
import org.apache.pig.PigException;
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;


/**
 * This method should never be used directly, use {@link CONCAT}.
 */
public class StringConcat extends EvalFunc<String> {

    @Override
    public String exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {
        try{
        if (input == null || input.size() == 0)
          return null;

          StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
          for (int i = 0; i < input.size(); i++){
              if (input.get(i)==null)
                  return null;
              sb.append(String.valueOf(input.get(i)));
          }
          return sb.toString();
        } catch (ExecException exp) {
            throw exp;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            int errCode = 2106;
            String msg = "Error while computing concat in " + this.getClass().getSimpleName();
            throw new ExecException(msg, errCode, PigException.BUG, e);
        }
    }
    
    @Override
    public Schema outputSchema(Schema input) {
        return new Schema(new Schema.FieldSchema(null, DataType.CHARARRAY)); 
    }
    
    @Override
    public SchemaType getSchemaType() {
        return SchemaType.VARARG;
    }

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