Hi Dan,
iirc, registering a jar does not put it on the Pig client classpath, it just
tells Pig to ship the jar. You want to put it on the PIG_CLASSPATH before
you invoke pig.

D

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to use InvokeForString to call a simple static method that
> wraps http://mzsanford.github.com/twitter-text-java/docs/api/index.html
> https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text-java ... specifically the
> Extractor class extractURLs method.  In fact since the logical result
> is a list of URLs perhaps I should be writing proper Pig-centric
> wrapper that returns a tuple, but for now I thought a stringified list
> would be ok for my immediate purposes. That purpose being pulling out
> all the URLs from a corpus of tweets, so we can expand the bit.ly and
> other short urls...
>
> So - I built the extra class (src below) and packaged it inside the
> twitter-text jar, and verify it's in there and usable as follows:
>
> danbri$ java -cp
> twitter-text-1.3.1-plus-tv.notube.TwitterExtractor.jar
> tv.notube.TwitterExtractor "hello http://example.com/
> http://example.org/ world"
> URLs: [http://example.com/, http://example.org/]
>
> Then from the same directory, I try run this as a Pig job:
>
> tw06 = load '/user/danbri/twitter/tweets2009-06.tab.txt.lzo' AS (
> when: chararray, who: chararray, msg: chararray);
> REGISTER twitter-text-1.3.1-plus-tv.notube.TwitterExtractor.jar;
> DEFINE ExtractURLs InvokeForString('tv.notube.TwitterExtractor.urls',
> 'String');
> urls = FOREACH tw06 GENERATE ExtractURLs(msg);
> x = SAMPLE urls 0.001;
> dump x;
>
> ...but we don't get past InvokeForString,
>
> 2011-03-01 14:50:31,033 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt
> - ERROR 1000: Error during parsing. could not instantiate
> 'InvokeForString' with arguments '[tv.notube.TwitterExtractor.urls,
> String]'
> Details at logfile: /home/danbri/twitter/pig_1298987430385.log
> ...->
> Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: tv.notube.TwitterExtractor
>
> I checked that Pig is finding the jar by mis-spelling the filename in
> the "REGISTER" line (which as expected causes things to fail earlier).
> Also double-check that the class is in the jar,
> danbri$ jar -tvf
> twitter-text-1.3.1-plus-tv.notube.TwitterExtractor.jar | grep tv
>     0 Tue Mar 01 12:03:04 CET 2011 tv/
>     0 Tue Mar 01 12:03:04 CET 2011 tv/notube/
>  1114 Tue Mar 01 13:40:30 CET 2011 tv/notube/TwitterExtractor.class
>
> ...so I'm finding myself stuck. I'm sure the answer is staring me in
> the face, but I can't see it. Perhaps I should just do things properly
> with "extends EvalFunc<String>" and return the tuples separately
> anyway...
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Dan
>
>
> package tv.notube;
> import com.twitter.Extractor;
> import java.util.List;
> class TwitterExtractor {
>
>  public static void main (String[] args) {
>    String in = args[0];
>        System.out.println("URLs: " + urls(in));
>  }
>
>  public static String urls(String tweet) {
>    Extractor ex = new Extractor();
>    List urls = ex.extractURLs(tweet);
>    String o = urls.toString();
>    return o;
>  }
> }
>

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