Functional Equivalence Helpers

A list of helpers functions in JavaScript that procedures in SnowFlake can use, in order to better support several Teradata language features.

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Depending on what is in each Stored Procedure in Teradata, SnowConvert will create one or more of the following javascript functions inside them.

CompareDates

A function that compares dates handling nullity. In Javascript, it is needed to call .getTime() for date comparisons.

var CompareDates = function(value1, value2) {
	var value1Time = value1 && value1.getTime() || null;
	var value2Time = value2 && value2.getTime() || null;
	if (value1Time == null && value2Time == null) return null; /*in SQL null == null is equal to null as well as any other comparison */
	return value1Time > value2Time? 1 : value1Time<value2Time? -1 : 0;
}

BetweenFunc

A function to handle the BETWEEN statement in Teradata.

var BetweenFunc = function (expression,startExpr,endExpr) {
	if ([expression,startExpr,endExpr].some((arg) => arg == null)) {
		  return false;
	}
	return expression >= startExpr && expression <= endExpr;
};

LikeFunction()

A function to handle the LIKE statement in Teradata.

var likeFunction = function (leftExpr,rightExpr) {
	RegExp.escape = function (text) {
		if (!arguments.callee.sRE) {
			var specials = ['/','.','*','+','?','|','(',')','[',']','{','}','\\'];
			arguments.callee.sRE = new RegExp('(\\' + specials.join('|\\') + ')','g');
		}
		return text.replace(arguments.callee.sRE,'\\$1');
	}
	var likeExpr = RegExp.escape(rightExpr);
	var likeResult = new RegExp(likeExpr.replace('%','.*').replace('_','.')).exec(leftExpr) != null;
	return likeResult;
};

ERROR_HANDLERS()

The main error-handling routine.

var continue_handler_1 = function (error) {
   {
	  V_SQL_VALUE = SQLSTATE;
	  V_EXCEPTION_FLAG = `Y`;
   }
};

// Main error-handling routine
var ERROR_HANDLERS = function (error) {
   switch(error.state) {
	  //Conversion Warning - handlers for the switch default (SQLWARNING/SQLEXCEPTION/NOT FOUND) can be the following
	  default:continue_handler_1(error);
   }
};

INSERT_TEMP

This helper has been deprecated in stored procedures since version 2.0.15.

A function to create a temporary table using the argument query with the given parameters.

var procname = `PUBLIC.Procedure1`;
var temptable_prefix, tablelist = [];
var INSERT_TEMP = function (query,parameters) {
		if (!temptable_prefix) {
	  		var sql_stmt = `select current_session() || '_' || to_varchar(current_timestamp, 'yyyymmddhh24missss')`;
	      var rs = snowflake.createStatement({
	         sqlText : sql_stmt,
	         binds : []
	      }).execute();
	      temptable_prefix = rs.next() && (procname + '_TEMP_' + rs.getColumnValue(1) + '_');
	  }
	  var tablename = temptable_prefix + tablelist.length;
	  tablelist.push(tablename);
	  var sql_stmt = `CREATE OR REPLACE TEMPORARY TABLE ${tablename} AS ${query}`;
	  snowflake.execute({
	  		sqlText : sql_stmt,
	      binds : parameters
	  });
	  return tablename;
};

IS_NOT_FOUND()

A function that validates when a SELECT returns no values or a sentence affects zero rows. This is done in order to emulate the same behavior as Teradata, when there are exits or continue handlers for NOT FOUND EXCEPTIONS.

let IS_NOT_FOUND = (stmt) => {
	   let n = -1;
	   let cmd = stmt.getSqlText().replace(new RegExp("\\/\\*.*\\*\\/","gsi"),"").replace(new RegExp("--.*?\\n","gsi"),"");
	   let matched = cmd.match(new RegExp("\\s*(\\w+)\\s+"),"");
	   if (matched) {
	      cmd = matched[1].toUpperCase();
	      switch(cmd) {
		       case "CALL":
	         case "DROP":
	         case "CREATE":
	         case "ALTER":
	         case "SELECT":
								n = stmt.getRowCount();
	         break;
	         default:n = stmt.getNumRowsAffected();
	         break;
	      }
	   }
	   return n == 0;
	};

HANDLE_NOTFOUND()

This function uses the above IS_NOT_FOUND function to validate when an artificial error 'NOT FOUND' is being thrown.

 	let HANDLE_NOTFOUND = (stmt) => {
	   if (IS_NOT_FOUND(stmt) && (error = new Error('NOT_FOUND')) && (NOT_FOUND = true) && ([error.code,error.state] = ['020000','020000'])) throw error;
	};

PROCRESULTS()

A function that takes zero or multiple output parameters and binds them with the _OUTQUERIES in an array in order to be returned.

let PROCRESULTS = (...OUTPARAMS) => JSON.stringify([...OUTPARAMS,[..._OUTQUERIES]]);

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