The ExecutionFactory class defines all the methods that describe the capabilities of a Translator. These are used by the Connector Manager to determine what kinds of commands the translator is capable of executing. A base ExecutionFactory class implements all the basic capabilities methods, which says your translator does not support any capabilities. Your extended ExecutionFactory class must override the the necessary methods to specify which capabilities your translator supports.  You should consult the debug log of query planning (set showplan debug) to see if desired pushdown requires additional capabilities.

Capability Scope

Note that if your capabilities will remain unchanged for the lifetime of the translator, since the engine will cache them for reuse by all instances of that translator. Capabilities based on connection/user are not supported.

Capabilities

The following table lists the capabilities that can be specified in the ExecutionFactory class.

Available Capabilities

Note that any pushdown subquery must itself be compliant with the Translator capabilities.

Command Form

The method ExecutionFactory.useAnsiJoin() should return true if the Translator prefers the use of ANSI style join structure for join trees that contain only INNER and CROSS joins.

The method ExecutionFactory.requiresCriteria() should return true if the Translator requires criteria for any Query, Update, or Delete. This is a replacement for the model support property "Where All".

Scalar Functions

The method ExecutionFactory.getSupportedFunctions() can be used to specify which system/user defined scalar and user defined aggregate functions the Translator supports. The constants interface org.teiid.translator.SourceSystemFunctions contains the string names of all possible built-in pushdown functions, which includes the four standard math operators: +, -, *, and /.

Not all system functions appear in SourceSystemFunctions, since some system functions will always be evaluated in Teiid, are simple aliases to other functions, or are rewritten to a more standard expression.

This documentation for system functions can be found at Scalar Functions. If the Translator states that it supports a function, it must support all type combinations and overloaded forms of that function.

A translator may also indicate support for scalar functions that are intended for pushdown evaluation by that translator, but are not registered as user defined functions via a model/schema.  These pushdown functions are reported to the engine via the ExecutionFactory.getPushDownFunctions() list as FunctionMethod metadata objects. The FuncitonMethod representation allow the translator to control all of the metadata related to the function, including type signature, determinism, varargs, etc. The simplest way to add a pushdown function is with a call to ExecutionFactory.addPushDownFunction:

FunctionMethod addPushDownFunction(String qualifier, String name, String returnType, String...paramTypes)

This resulting function will be known as sys.qualifier.name, but can be called with just name as long as the function name is unique. The returned FunctionMethod object may be further manipulated depending upon the needs of the source. An example of adding a custom concat vararg function in an ExecutionFactory subclass:

public void start() throws TranslatorException {
  super.start();
  FunctionMethod func = addPushDownFunciton("oracle", "concat", "string", "string", "string");
  func.setVarArgs(true);
  ...
}

Physical Limits

The method ExecutionFactory.getMaxInCriteriaSize() can be used to specify the maximum number of values that can be passed in an IN criteria.  This is an important constraint as an IN criteria is frequently used to pass criteria between one source and another using a dependent join.

The method ExecutionFactory.getMaxDependentInPredicates() is used to specify the maximum number of IN predicates (of at most MaxInCriteriaSize) that can be passed as part of a dependent join. For example if there are 10000 values to pass as part of the dependent join and a MaxInCriteriaSize of 1000 and a MaxDependentInPredicates setting of 5, then the dependent join logic will form two source queries each with 5 IN predicates of 1000 values each combined by OR.

The method ExecutionFactory.getMaxFromGroups() can be used to specify the maximum number of FROM Clause groups that can used in a join. -1 indicates there is no limit.

Update Execution Modes

The method ExecutionFactory.supportsBatchedUpdates() can be used to indicate that the Translator supports executing the BatchedUpdates command.

The method ExecutionFactory.supportsBulkUpdate() can be used to indicate that the Translator accepts update commands containg multi valued Literals.

Note that if the translator does not support either of these update modes, the query engine will compensate by issuing the updates individually.

Default Behavior

The method ExecutionFactory.getDefaultNullOrder() specifies the default null order. Can be one of UNKNOWN, LOW, HIGH, FIRST, LAST. This is only used if ORDER BY is supported, but null ordering is not.