[coverage] Conformance findings: METADATA-035

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2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start with the failing test test_get_tables_empty_table_types_filter_matches_all in the coverage PR under tests/, then trace the Python connector's Thrift get_tables path. Confirm the empty table_types behavior against the linked conformance context; done means the test passes and empty types match all table types.

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Description

Summary

Surfaced by the multi-language coverage fan-out while conformance-testing these SPEC-IDs against databricks/databricks-sql-python. Each finding is committed as an expected-failure (xfail) test in the coverage PR — the test asserts the CORRECT (post-fix) behavior and stays red until THIS driver (databricks/databricks-sql-python) is fixed, then flips green as a tripwire.

Findings

  • METADATA-035 [thrift]: Thrift get_tables forwards an empty table_types list verbatim as TGetTablesReq.tableTypes=[], so the server matches no table type and returns 0 rows, instead of treating empty like None (match all) per the hiveserver2 empty-types parity contract; the connector's kernel path already normalises [] to None.
    • failing test: test_get_tables_empty_table_types_filter_matches_all (see the coverage PR diff under tests/)

Context

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Python
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