I am having problem running the cassandra_loadfunc.jar on my build of cassandra. PIG_CLASSPATH=:bin/../build/cassandra_loadfunc.jar::bin/../../..//lib/antlr-3.1.3.jar:bin/../../..//lib/avro-1.2.0-dev.jar:bin/../../..//lib/clhm-production.jar:bin/../../..//lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:bin/../../..//lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:bin/../../..//lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:bin/../../..//lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:bin/../../..//lib/google-collections-1.0.jar:bin/../../..//lib/hadoop-core-0.20.1.jar:bin/../../..//lib/high-scale-lib.jar:bin/../../..//lib/jackson-core-asl-1.4.0.jar:bin/../../..//lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.4.0.jar:bin/../../..//lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:bin/../../..//lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:bin/../../..//lib/libthrift.jar:bin/../../..//lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar:bin/../../..//lib/slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar:bin/../../..//lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.5.8.jar:bin/../../..//lib/spymemcached-2.4.2.jar:bin/../../..//lib/zapcat-1.2.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/ant-1.6.5.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/apache-rat-0.6.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/apache-rat-core-0.6.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/apache-rat-tasks-0.6.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/asm-3.2.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/avalon-framework-4.1.3.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/commons-cli-1.1.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/commons-collections-3.2.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/commons-lang-2.1.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/junit-4.6.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/log4j-1.2.12.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/logkit-1.0.1.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/paranamer-ant-2.1.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/paranamer-generator-2.1.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/qdox-1.10.jar:bin/../../..//build/lib/jars/servlet-api-2.3.jar:bin/../../..//build/apache-cassandra-0.6.4.jar:bin/../../..//build/ivy-2.1.0.jar:/usr/local/pig-0.7.0/pig.jar
In Grunt I did register again just in case it is not picked up by the classpath register /usr/local/pig-0.7.0/pig.jar; register /home/felix/cassandra/lib/libthrift.jar; register /home/felix/cassandra/contrib/pig/build/cassandra_loadfunc.jar grunt> rows = LOAD 'cassandra://test.data' USING CassandraStorge(); 2011-01-05 13:50:50,071 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1070: Could not resolve CassandraStorge using imports: [org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.pig., , org.apache.pig.builtin., org.apache.pig.impl.builtin.] Details at logfile: /home/felix/cassandra/contrib/pig/pig_1294257032719.log the log file contains Pig Stack Trace --------------- ERROR 1070: Could not resolve CassandraStorge using imports: [org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.pig., , org.apache.pig.builtin., org.apache.pig.impl.builtin.] java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot instantiate:CassandraStorge at org.apache.pig.impl.PigContext.instantiateFuncFromSpec(PigContext.java:455) at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.parser.QueryParser.NonEvalFuncSpec(QueryParser.java:5087) at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.parser.QueryParser.LoadClause(QueryParser.java:1434) at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.parser.QueryParser.BaseExpr(QueryParser.java:1245) at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.parser.QueryParser.Expr(QueryParser.java:911) at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.parser.QueryParser.Parse(QueryParser.java:700) at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.LogicalPlanBuilder.parse(LogicalPlanBuilder.java:63) at org.apache.pig.PigServer$Graph.parseQuery(PigServer.java:1164) at org.apache.pig.PigServer$Graph.registerQuery(PigServer.java:1114) at org.apache.pig.PigServer.registerQuery(PigServer.java:425) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processPig(GruntParser.java:737) at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:324) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:162) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:138) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.run(Grunt.java:75) at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:357) Caused by: org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 1070: Could not resolve CassandraStorge using imports: [org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.pig., , org.apache.pig.builtin., org.apache.pig.impl.builtin.] at org.apache.pig.impl.PigContext.resolveClassName(PigContext.java:440) at org.apache.pig.impl.PigContext.instantiateFuncFromSpec(PigContext.java:452) ... 15 more Running hadoop 0.20.2 with pig0.7.0 and have to use cassandra 0.6.4. Thanks, Felix