[SPARK-36751] octet_length/bit_length API is not implemented on Scala/Python/R

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.0
• Component/s: PySpark, SparkR, SQL
• Assignee: Leona Yoda
• Reporter: Leona Yoda
• Created: 14/Sep/21 06:54
• Updated: 06/Oct/21 11:21
• Resolved: 15/Sep/21 07:28

Description

• octet_length: caliculate the byte length of strings
• bit_length: caliculate the bit length of strings

Those two string related functions are only implemented on SparkSQL, not on Scala, Python and R.

Those functions would be useful for multi-bytes character users, who mainly working with those languages.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #33992 (yoda-mon)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #34196 (HyukjinKwon)