Ok you can build it from my EB branch:
https://github.com/dvryaboy/elephant-bird/tree/add_locationtuple_loader
You will want to build the elephant-bird-pig package, and the loader is
com.twitter.elephantbird.pig.load.LocationAsTuple
Here's the javadoc:
/**
* Parses the "location" into a tuple by splitting on a delimiter, and
returns it.
* Handy for turning scalars into relations. For example:
* <pre>{@code
* languages = load 'en,fr,jp' using LocationAsTuple(',');
* -- languages is ('en', 'fr', 'jp')
* language_bag = foreach languages generate flatten(TOBAG(*));
* -- language_bag is a relation with three rows, ('en'), ('fr'), ('jp')
* }</pre>
*/
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?
>> >
>>
>
