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Bill Graham commented on PIG-2600:
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+1 for overloading. People often try to use these with Maps or Bags, realize
they can't and then write a MapToBag UDF.
Do you think INVERSEMAP is something that people need often? I question the
general usefulness of that one.
> Better Map support
> ------------------
>
> Key: PIG-2600
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2600
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Coveney
> Fix For: 0.11
>
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> It would be nice if Pig played better with Maps. To that end, I'd like to add
> a lot of utility around Maps.
> - TOBAG should take a Map and output {(key, value)}
> - TOMAP should take a Bag in that same form and make a map.
> - KEYSET should return the set of keys.
> - VALUESET should return the set of values.
> - VALUELIST should return the List of values (no deduping).
> - INVERSEMAP would return a Map of values => the set of keys that refer to
> that Key
> This would all be pretty easy. A more substantial piece of work would be to
> make Pig support non-String keys (this is especially an issue since UDFs and
> whatnot probably assume that they are all Integers). Not sure if it is worth
> it.
> I'd love to hear other things that would be useful for people!
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