So I have a udf, let's call it myudf.bag2bag, which takes a bag which
contains "prop," and creates a new bag of tuples based on that.

I have data in the form of

id    prop    other1    other2

If all I care about is running the udf, obviously I can do

A = LOAD 'file' AS (id, prop, other1, other2);
B = GROUP A BY id;
C = FOREACH B GENERATE group, FLATTEN(myudf.bag2bag(A.prop));

And all is fine

But what do I do if I want to hold on to the other data, especially if you
don't know how much there will be (from a bag2bag perspective)

My thought is that in bag2bag, you can pass in a touple of "extras," which
you then pass back, ie

C = FOREACH B GENERATE group, FLATTEN(myudf.bag2bag(A.prop, (A,other1,
A.other2))));

I'm just not sure how I would specify the schema for this, in such a way
that any number of entries could be in the tuple, and then you could just
sort of reference them later.

Is this possible?

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