datafusion_functions/unicode/
character_length.rs

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use crate::strings::StringArrayType;
use crate::utils::{make_scalar_function, utf8_to_int_type};
use arrow::array::{
    Array, ArrayRef, ArrowPrimitiveType, AsArray, OffsetSizeTrait, PrimitiveArray,
};
use arrow::datatypes::{ArrowNativeType, DataType, Int32Type, Int64Type};
use datafusion_common::Result;
use datafusion_expr::scalar_doc_sections::DOC_SECTION_STRING;
use datafusion_expr::{
    ColumnarValue, Documentation, ScalarUDFImpl, Signature, Volatility,
};
use std::any::Any;
use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock};

#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct CharacterLengthFunc {
    signature: Signature,
    aliases: Vec<String>,
}

impl Default for CharacterLengthFunc {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self::new()
    }
}

impl CharacterLengthFunc {
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        use DataType::*;
        Self {
            signature: Signature::uniform(
                1,
                vec![Utf8, LargeUtf8, Utf8View],
                Volatility::Immutable,
            ),
            aliases: vec![String::from("length"), String::from("char_length")],
        }
    }
}

impl ScalarUDFImpl for CharacterLengthFunc {
    fn as_any(&self) -> &dyn Any {
        self
    }

    fn name(&self) -> &str {
        "character_length"
    }

    fn signature(&self) -> &Signature {
        &self.signature
    }

    fn return_type(&self, arg_types: &[DataType]) -> Result<DataType> {
        utf8_to_int_type(&arg_types[0], "character_length")
    }

    fn invoke(&self, args: &[ColumnarValue]) -> Result<ColumnarValue> {
        make_scalar_function(character_length, vec![])(args)
    }

    fn aliases(&self) -> &[String] {
        &self.aliases
    }

    fn documentation(&self) -> Option<&Documentation> {
        Some(get_character_length_doc())
    }
}

static DOCUMENTATION: OnceLock<Documentation> = OnceLock::new();

fn get_character_length_doc() -> &'static Documentation {
    DOCUMENTATION.get_or_init(|| {
        Documentation::builder()
            .with_doc_section(DOC_SECTION_STRING)
            .with_description("Returns the number of characters in a string.")
            .with_syntax_example("character_length(str)")
            .with_sql_example(
                r#"```sql
> select character_length('Ångström');
+------------------------------------+
| character_length(Utf8("Ångström")) |
+------------------------------------+
| 8                                  |
+------------------------------------+
```"#,
            )
            .with_standard_argument("str", Some("String"))
            .with_related_udf("bit_length")
            .with_related_udf("octet_length")
            .build()
            .unwrap()
    })
}

/// Returns number of characters in the string.
/// character_length('josé') = 4
/// The implementation counts UTF-8 code points to count the number of characters
fn character_length(args: &[ArrayRef]) -> Result<ArrayRef> {
    match args[0].data_type() {
        DataType::Utf8 => {
            let string_array = args[0].as_string::<i32>();
            character_length_general::<Int32Type, _>(string_array)
        }
        DataType::LargeUtf8 => {
            let string_array = args[0].as_string::<i64>();
            character_length_general::<Int64Type, _>(string_array)
        }
        DataType::Utf8View => {
            let string_array = args[0].as_string_view();
            character_length_general::<Int32Type, _>(string_array)
        }
        _ => unreachable!(),
    }
}

fn character_length_general<'a, T: ArrowPrimitiveType, V: StringArrayType<'a>>(
    array: V,
) -> Result<ArrayRef>
where
    T::Native: OffsetSizeTrait,
{
    // String characters are variable length encoded in UTF-8, counting the
    // number of chars requires expensive decoding, however checking if the
    // string is ASCII only is relatively cheap.
    // If strings are ASCII only, count bytes instead.
    let is_array_ascii_only = array.is_ascii();
    let iter = array.iter();
    let result = iter
        .map(|string| {
            string.map(|string: &str| {
                if is_array_ascii_only {
                    T::Native::usize_as(string.len())
                } else {
                    T::Native::usize_as(string.chars().count())
                }
            })
        })
        .collect::<PrimitiveArray<T>>();

    Ok(Arc::new(result) as ArrayRef)
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use crate::unicode::character_length::CharacterLengthFunc;
    use crate::utils::test::test_function;
    use arrow::array::{Array, Int32Array, Int64Array};
    use arrow::datatypes::DataType::{Int32, Int64};
    use datafusion_common::{Result, ScalarValue};
    use datafusion_expr::{ColumnarValue, ScalarUDFImpl};

    macro_rules! test_character_length {
        ($INPUT:expr, $EXPECTED:expr) => {
            test_function!(
                CharacterLengthFunc::new(),
                &[ColumnarValue::Scalar(ScalarValue::Utf8($INPUT))],
                $EXPECTED,
                i32,
                Int32,
                Int32Array
            );

            test_function!(
                CharacterLengthFunc::new(),
                &[ColumnarValue::Scalar(ScalarValue::LargeUtf8($INPUT))],
                $EXPECTED,
                i64,
                Int64,
                Int64Array
            );

            test_function!(
                CharacterLengthFunc::new(),
                &[ColumnarValue::Scalar(ScalarValue::Utf8View($INPUT))],
                $EXPECTED,
                i32,
                Int32,
                Int32Array
            );
        };
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_functions() -> Result<()> {
        #[cfg(feature = "unicode_expressions")]
        {
            test_character_length!(Some(String::from("chars")), Ok(Some(5)));
            test_character_length!(Some(String::from("josé")), Ok(Some(4)));
            // test long strings (more than 12 bytes for StringView)
            test_character_length!(Some(String::from("joséjoséjoséjosé")), Ok(Some(16)));
            test_character_length!(Some(String::from("")), Ok(Some(0)));
            test_character_length!(None, Ok(None));
        }

        #[cfg(not(feature = "unicode_expressions"))]
        test_function!(
            CharacterLengthFunc::new(),
            &[ColumnarValue::Scalar(ScalarValue::Utf8(Some(String::from("josé"))))],
            internal_err!(
                "function character_length requires compilation with feature flag: unicode_expressions."
            ),
            i32,
            Int32,
            Int32Array
        );

        Ok(())
    }
}
datafusion_functions/unicode/character_length.rs

datafusion_functions/unicode/
character_length.rs
