Yeah - for completely dynamic column names, then yeah - From/To Cassandra Bag
doesn't handle that. It does handle prefixed names though - like link* will
get a bag of all the columns that start with link. But sounds like you are
doing what I would have to do if I got into a nested data conundrum. Like I
said, others may have better advice for getting the data the way you want it.
On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:08 PM, William Oberman wrote:
> My problem is the column names are dynamic (a date), and pygmalion seems to
> want the column names to be fixed at "compile time" (the script).
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Jeremy Hanna
> <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> That's partly why I like to use FromCassandraBag and ToCassandraBag from
>> pygmalion - it does the work for you to get it back into a form that
>> cassandra understands.
>>
>> Others may know better how to massage the data into that form using just
>> pig, but if all else fails, you could write a udf to do that.
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM, William Oberman wrote:
>>
>>> I think I'm stuck on typing issues trying to store data in cassandra. To
>> verify, cassandra wants (key, {tuples})
>>>
>>> My pig script is fairly brief:
>>> raw = LOAD 'cassandra://test_in/test_cf' USING CassandraStorage() AS
>> (key:chararray, columns:bag {column:tuple (name, value)});
>>> --colums == timeUUID -> JSON
>>> rows = FOREACH raw GENERATE key, FLATTEN(columns);
>>> alias_target_day = FOREACH rows {
>>> --I wrote a specialized parser that does exactly what I need
>>> observation_map = com.civicscience.pig.ParseObservation($2);
>>> GENERATE $0 as alias, observation_map#'_fqt' as target,
>> observation_map#'_day' as day;
>>> };
>>> grouping = GROUP alias_target_day BY ((chararray)target,(chararray)day);
>>> X = FOREACH grouping GENERATE group.$0 as target, TOTUPLE(group.$1,
>> COUNT($1)) as day_count;
>>>
>>> This gets me:
>>> (targetA, (day1, count))
>>> (targetA, (day2, count))
>>> (targetB, (day1, count))
>>> ....
>>>
>>> But, cassandra wants the 2nd item to be a bag. So, I tried:
>>> X = FOREACH grouping GENERATE group.$0 as target, TOBAG(TOTUPLE(group.$1,
>> COUNT($1))) as day_count;
>>>
>>> But this results in:
>>> (targetA, {((day1, count))})
>>> (targetA, {((day2, count))})
>>> (targetB, {((day1, count))})
>>> It's hard to see, but the 2nd item now has a nested tuple as the first
>> value, which is still bad.
>>>
>>> How to I get (key, {tuple})??? I wasn't sure where to post this (pig or
>> cassandra), so I'm posting to the pig list too.
>>>
>>> will
>>
>>
>
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