I have a loader that does exactly that. Let me see about dropping into Elephant-Bird.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree this would be useful for debugging, but I'd go about it a > different way. Rather than add new syntax as you propose, it seems we > could easily create an inline loader, so your script would look something > like: > > A = load '{(Hello), (World)}' using InlineLoader(); > dump A; > > Alan. > > On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Michael Malak wrote: > > > I'm new to Pig, and it looks like there is no provision to declare > relations inline in a Pig script (without LOADing from an external file)? > > > > Based on > > http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.7.0/piglatin_ref2.html#Constants > > I would have thought the following would constitute "Hello World" for > Pig: > > > > A = {('Hello'),('World')}; > > DUMP A; > > > > But I get a syntax error. The ability to inline relations would be > useful for debugging. Is this limitation by design, or is it just not > implemented yet? > > > >
