Added stringtodate and datetostring UDFs for 5.1.x #2056
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Description
Added
stringtodate
anddatetostring
UDFs to convert to and from a formatted date string and an integer representing days since epoch. This format is used by Kafka Connect to represent Date objects with no time or time zone component.In a separate commit on the same PR I also updated
stringtotimestamp
andtimestamptostring
to use the new UDF api and to support dynamically supplied format patterns.This is #1890 cherry picked for the 5.1.x branch.
Testing done
Added tests for all new functionality and ran locally. Generated and views updated docs locally.
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