Add `metadata: Metadata` to `StructField` to store extra information of columns. `Metadata` is a simple wrapper over `Map[String, Any]` with value types restricted to Boolean, Long, Double, String, Metadata, and arrays of those types. SerDe is via JSON.
Metadata is preserved through simple operations like `SELECT`.
marmbrus liancheng
Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>
Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>
Closes#2701 from mengxr/structfield-metadata and squashes the following commits:
dedda56 [Xiangrui Meng] merge remote
5ef930a [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into structfield-metadata
c35203f [Xiangrui Meng] Merge pull request #1 from marmbrus/pr/2701
886b85c [Michael Armbrust] Expose Metadata and MetadataBuilder through the public scala and java packages.
589f314 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into structfield-metadata
1e2abcf [Xiangrui Meng] change default value of metadata to None in python
611d3c2 [Xiangrui Meng] move metadata from Expr to NamedExpr
ddfcfad [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into structfield-metadata
a438440 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into structfield-metadata
4266f4d [Xiangrui Meng] add StructField.toString back for backward compatibility
3f49aab [Xiangrui Meng] remove StructField.toString
24a9f80 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into structfield-metadata
473a7c5 [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
c9d7301 [Xiangrui Meng] organize imports
1fcbf13 [Xiangrui Meng] change metadata type in StructField for Scala/Java
60cc131 [Xiangrui Meng] add doc and header
60614c7 [Xiangrui Meng] add metadata
e42c452 [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
93518fb [Xiangrui Meng] support metadata in python
905bb89 [Xiangrui Meng] java conversions
618e349 [Xiangrui Meng] make tests work in scala
61b8e0f [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
7e5a322 [Xiangrui Meng] do not output metadata in StructField.toString
c41a664 [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
d8af0ed [Xiangrui Meng] move tests to SQLQuerySuite
67fdebb [Xiangrui Meng] add test on join
d65072e [Xiangrui Meng] remove Map.empty
367d237 [Xiangrui Meng] add test
c194d5e [Xiangrui Meng] add metadata field to StructField and Attribute
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