[teiid-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TEIID-5281) Issue with concatenating null strings with OData translator

[Ramesh Reddy (JIRA)]

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Ramesh Reddy commented on TEIID-5281:
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Based on http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/errata03/os/complete/part2-url-conventions/odata-v4.0-errata03-os-part2-url-conventions-complete.html section "5.1.1.4 Canonical Functions" it says if one of the parameters is null the result should be null too, matching Teiid's behavior. So is there a difference in behavior right now?

> Issue with concatenating null strings with OData translator
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TEIID-5281
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-5281
>             Project: Teiid
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: OData
>    Affects Versions: 8.12.11.6_4
>            Reporter: Jan Martiska
>            Assignee: Steven Hawkins
>            Priority: Minor
>
> There is a difference in behavior of {{CONCAT(x,y)}} function in Teiid SQL and the {{concat(x,y)}} filtering function in OData - the SQL function will return null if one of the arguments is null, but the OData function will return the non-null argument in this case.
> This leads to some peculiar behavior that for rows where A='10' and B=null, the query
> {noformat}
> SELECT concat(A, B) = '10' 
> FROM BQT1.SmallA 
> WHERE concat(A, B) = '10';
> {noformat}
> will return a row containing {{false}}, because the expression in the SELECT clause will be evaluated by Teiid, whereas the one in the WHERE clause will be evaluated by the OData {{concat}} function.
> This is against the documented behavior of Teiid's {{CONCAT}} function, because such row should not be returned at all.



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