@Override
 public Void call() throws Exception {
   int batchSize = 1024;
   VectorUDFDateString udf = new VectorUDFDateString(0, 1);
   VectorizedRowBatch batch = new VectorizedRowBatch(2, batchSize);
   BytesColumnVector in = new BytesColumnVector(batchSize);
   LongColumnVector out = new LongColumnVector(batchSize);
   batch.cols[0] = in;
   batch.cols[1] = out;
   for (int i = 0; i < batchSize; i++) {
     byte[] data = String.format("1999-%02d-%02d", 1 + (i % 12), 1 + (i % 15)).getBytes("UTF-8");
     in.setRef(i, data, 0, data.length);
     in.isNull[i] = false;
   }
   udf.evaluate(batch);
   // bug if it throws an exception
   return (Void) null;
 }