[FLINK-9557] [formats] Parse 'integer' type as BigDecimal #6153
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What is the purpose of the change
This PR changes the behavior of how a JSON schema is converted into type information for the
integer
type. Currently, we treatinteger
as a BigInteger. However, the Table and SQL API are not able to handle BigInteger and this cannot be changed easily because there is no equivalent SQL type but onlyDECIMAL
. In order to avoid confusion for users and support end-to-end use cases that read and write to JSON formatted connectors, the best solution is to treatinteger
as BigDecimal. The serializers/deserializers still support BigInteger for specific use cases.Brief change log
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