Major Description
GenericUDF class is the latest and recommended base class for any UDFs.
This JIRA is to change the current UDFAbs class extended from GenericUDF.
The general benefit of GenericUDF is described in comments as
"* The GenericUDF are superior to normal UDFs in the following ways: 1. It can
- accept arguments of complex types, and return complex types. 2. It can accept
- variable length of arguments. 3. It can accept an infinite number of function
- signature - for example, it's easy to write a GenericUDF that accepts
- array<int>, array<array<int>> and so on (arbitrary levels of nesting). 4. It
- can do short-circuit evaluations using DeferedObject."