[PIG-4579] casting of primitive datetime data type should work

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Howard
• Created: 29/May/15 17:16
• Updated: 24/May/17 23:03

Description

datetime is a primitive data type.
One should be able to cast a chararray or a long into a datetime.
currently, this does not work.

casting from a chararray should call the built-in UDF ToDateISO(chararray)
casting from a long should call the built-in UDF ToDate(long)