ARROW-3923: [Java] JDBC Time Fetches Without Timezone

[mikepigott]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3923

Hello! I was reading through the JDBC source code and I noticed that a java.util.Calendar was required for creating an Arrow Schema and Arrow Vectors from a JDBC ResultSet, when none is required.

This change makes the Calendar optional.

Unit Tests:
The existing SureFire plugin configuration uses a UTC calendar for the database, which is the default Calendar in the existing code. Likewise, no changes to the unit tests are required to provide adequate coverage for the change.

[xhochy]

@jacques-n@siddharthteotia@BryanCutler Can you have a look a this?

[mikepigott]

Hi, I just posted #3133 which adds a configuration class to the conversion process. If you want, I can incorporate that change here, to make this a non-breaking change.

[BryanCutler]

I'm not too familiar with this module, let's ping the original author @atuldambalkar and @laurentgo to possibly take a look

[wesm]

@siddharthteotia@laurentgo@atuldambalkar can you review?

[laurentgo]

I'll try to give a review asap, but there some danger on relying on the default timezone, especially as Arrow is fairly explicit about timezones (that said, haven't fully reviewed it yet, so might be have addressed...)

[mikepigott]

Thanks @laurentgo for taking a look! I was looking through the Arrow code and it looks like there are various variations on timestamp types, and not all of them require a time zone.

The current code forces everything to UTC if a time zone isn't provided, which didn't seem right to me, because the database field itself may not have a time zone attached to it. Likewise, it didn't seem right to enforce a time zone when Arrow didn't appear to need one.

[atuldambalkar]

Hi @mikepigott
Sorry for not reverting earlier. I looked at all the JIRAs - this one, 3965 and 3966. I understand that the fixes for 3966 which is Pull-3134 pretty much supersede earlier pull requests this one 3066 and 3133. In that case I will only review Pull 3134. I hope this is okay.

[mikepigott]

Hi, 3966 supercedes 3965, but this one is independent - if this PR was rejected, I didn't want to impact those two. Thanks for taking a look!

[atuldambalkar]

Hi @mikepigott - I looked at JDBC ResultSet API and I tend to agree with your changes and use the Calendar object if explicitly provided by the caller. Basically, in case of non-availability of Calendar object from the caller, we will be falling back to the way JDBC ResultSet API implements Date/Time related API.

Hi @laurentgo - What's your opinion?

[praveenbingo]

would this be backward incompatible? previously UTC would have been used and not the local calendar..

[mikepigott]

@praveenbingo - yes, you are right, this is a backwards-incompatible change. I have a separate PR, #3965 that introduces a configuration object. If that PR is approved before this one, I'm happy to rework this PR to use the configuration object and prevent this from being backwards-incompatible.

[praveenbingo]

@mikepigott - Done. Please go ahead with your suggestion. Thanks.

[atuldambalkar]

Sounds good @praveenbingo@mikepigott . I will take a look at PR 3966.

[mikepigott]

@praveenbingo: I have pulled in the JdbcToArrowConfig from master and reverted the breaking change. This is ready for your review!

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[praveenbingo]

looks good. Thanks @mikepigott

@wesm@siddharthteotia - Could you please help merging.

[xhochy]

@siddharthdave If there are no objections from your side, I'll merge this tomorrow.

[siddharthdave]

@xhochy , you probably meant @siddharthteotia :-)

[xhochy]

Thank you @mikepigott !