Wrangler data types

Owned by Robin Rielley
Last updated: Aug 02, 2022
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When you import a dataset, Wrangler infers the source data types and maps them to the corresponding Wrangler data types. Wrangler data types are internal data types based on Java data types. The inferred data types appear at the top of each column on the Data page.

Changing String to Boolean

If you change a String to Boolean, all values in the column are set to FALSE.

If you change an Integer to Boolean, 1 is set to TRUE. 0 and all other values are set to FALSE.

BigQuery and Wrangler data types

Wrangler doesn’t support the following BigQuery data types:

  • GEOGRAPHY

Note: Starting in CDAP 6.7.0, Wrangler supports the STRUCT data type. Wrangler versions before 6.7.0 do not support STRUCT.

 

Created in 2020 by Google Inc.