Re: piggybank/register is there a better way?

[Ian Holsman]

Alan Gates wrote:
register piggybank.jar;
define SearchTermExtractor 
org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.util.apachelogparser.SearchTermExtractor(); 

...
searchTerms = FOREACH row GENERATE SearchTermExtractor(url);

Is there a way for the function itself to do the 'define' when it 
registers itself?

On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Ian Holsman wrote:

So I have been watch (and using) Earl's latest patches with great joy
but I was wondering if there was a less cumbersome way of specifying 
the functions

for example


searchTerms = FOREACH row GENERATE 
org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.util.apachelogparser.SearchTermExtractor(url); 


vs

searchTerms = FOREACH row GENERATE SearchTermExtractor(url);

is there a way via introspection or something to make it so that we 
don't need to specify the full class path?

regards
Ian