loading/reading json for Pig processing sounds like a common useful functionality.
however, I have not found any implementation for such. (and yes, I know of Elephant Bird, which reads LZO-compressed json (but not regular json)) but I did see a reference in the "Hadoop Training: Introduction to Pig" ( http://www.cloudera.com/videos/introduction_to_pig) within the downloadable IntroToPig.pdf, where there is a mention of PigJsonLoader however, there is no such UDF within the piggybank source of the cloudera distributed vm, or within any other piggybank jar out there that I have seen. so I wonder, where can I find a pig json reader/loader that can accomplish the equivalent of: A = LOAD ‘data.json’ USING PigJsonLoader(); ??? any pointeres would be greatly appreciated ...
