[DRILL-2862] Convert_to/Convert_From throw assertion when an incorrect encoding type is specified

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Execution - Data Types
• Assignee: Parth Chandra
• Reporter: Neeraja
• Created: 23/Apr/15 20:49
• Updated: 04/Jul/17 11:51
• Resolved: 13/Jul/15 16:35

Description

Below is the error from SQLLine. Replacing UTF-8 to UTF8 works fine.
The error message need to accurately represent the problem.

0: jdbc:drill:> select Convert_from(t.address.state,'UTF-8') from customers t limit 10;
Query failed: AssertionError:

Error: exception while executing query: Failure while executing query. (state=,code=0)

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: DRILL-3544 Need better error messages when convert_to is given a bad type
• relates to: DRILL-4755 StringIndexOutOfBoundsException seen with CONVERT_FROM function