In the current code, support for case-sensitive (quoted) user-defined type
names is broken. For example, a test doing:
CREATE TYPE "PHone" (country_code int, number text)
CREATE TABLE cf (pk blob, pn "PHone", PRIMARY KEY (pk))
Fails - the first line creates the type with the case-sensitive name PHone,
but the second line wrongly ends up looking for the lowercased name phone,
and fails with an exception "Unknown type ks.phone".
The problem is in cql3_type_name_impl. This class is used to convert a
type object into its proper CQL syntax - for example frozen<list<int>>.
The problem is that for a user-defined type, we forgot to quote its name
if not lowercase, and the result is wrong CQL; For example, a list of
PHone will be written as list<PHone> - but this is wrong because the CQL
parser, when it sees this expression, lowercases the unquoted type name
PHone and it becomes just phone. It should be list<"PHone">, not list<PHone>.
The solution is for cql3_type_name_impl to use for a user-defined type
its get_name_as_cql_string() method instead of get_name_as_string().
get_name_as_cql_string() is a new method which prints the name of the
user type as it should be in a CQL expression, i.e., quoted if necessary.
The bug in the above test was apparently caused when our code serialized
the type name to disk as the string PHone (without any quoting), and then
later deserialized it using the CQL type parser, which converted it into
a lowercase phone. With this patch, the type's name is serialized as
"PHone", with the quotes, and deserialized properly as the type PHone.
While the extra quotes may seem excessive, they are necessary for the
correct CQL type expression - remember that the type expression may be
significantly more complex, e.g., frozen<list<"PHone">> and all of this,
including the quotes, is necessary for our parser to be able to translate
this string back into a type object.
This patch may cause breakage to existing databases which used case-
sensitive user-defined types, but I argue that these use cases were
already broken (as demonstrated by this test) so we won't break anything
that actually worked before.
Fixes#5544
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20200101160805.15847-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
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