[Bug]: Table Input Fails for MySQL datetime field about hop

[beccon4]

Further analysis shows that timestamp values cause the same errors

2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - ERROR: org.apache.hop.core.exception.HopValueException: 
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - create_time None : Unknown type 0 specified.
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.core.row.value.ValueMetaBase.getString(ValueMetaBase.java:2133)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.core.dialog.PreviewRowsDialog.getDataForRow(PreviewRowsDialog.java:373)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.core.dialog.PreviewRowsDialog.lambda$getData$7(PreviewRowsDialog.java:342)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:40)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:132)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:5040)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4520)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.core.dialog.BaseDialog.defaultShellHandling(BaseDialog.java:519)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.core.dialog.PreviewRowsDialog.open(PreviewRowsDialog.java:244)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.pipeline.transforms.tableinput.TableInputDialog.preview(TableInputDialog.java:574)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.pipeline.transforms.tableinput.TableInputDialog.lambda$open$3(TableInputDialog.java:327)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:89)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:5855)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1529)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:5065)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4517)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.core.dialog.BaseDialog.defaultShellHandling(BaseDialog.java:519)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.pipeline.transforms.tableinput.TableInputDialog.open(TableInputDialog.java:336)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.hopgui.file.pipeline.delegates.HopGuiPipelineTransformDelegate.editTransform(HopGuiPipelineTransformDelegate.java:174)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.hopgui.file.pipeline.HopGuiPipelineGraph.editTransform(HopGuiPipelineGraph.java:3400)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.hopgui.file.pipeline.HopGuiPipelineGraph.mouseDoubleClick(HopGuiPipelineGraph.java:597)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:200)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:89)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:5855)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1529)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:5065)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4517)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.hopgui.HopGui.open(HopGui.java:473)
2024/03/25 18:26:09 - Row Preview - 	at org.apache.hop.ui.hopgui.HopGui.main(HopGui.java:351)

... but not always. Retrieving data from a different MySQL Server works as expected (for datatime values at least)

The reason is the option "supports timestamp data type" in the "Relational Database Connection" setting, which is rather unintuitive as it deals with timestamp and we're reading datetime values from the table.

For me it is not clear what the option is for in the first place. Either MySQL/MariaDB supports these data types or not. And we're telling the "Relational Database Connection" which RDBMS we're connecting to. What would be the consequences of having this option selected and the RDBMS doesn't support timestamp?

So would you please either set this option by default or at least provide a more speaking error message. Thank you very much.