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Johannes Schwenk commented on PIG-2684: --------------------------------------- This sounds reasonable to mee. Is somebody working on this? > :: in field name causes AvroStorage to fail > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-2684 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2684 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Components: piggybank > Reporter: Fabian Alenius > > There appears to be a bug in AvroStorage which causes it to fail when there > are field names that contain :: > For example, the following will fail: > data = load 'test.txt' as (one, two); > grp = GROUP data by (one, two); > result = foreach grp generate FLATTEN(group); > > > store result into 'test.avro' using > org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage(); > ERROR 2999: Unexpected internal error. Illegal character in: group::one > While the following will succeed: > data = load 'test.txt' as (one, two); > grp = GROUP data by (one, two); > result = foreach grp generate FLATTEN(group) as (one,two); > > store result into 'test.avro' using > org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage(); > Here is a minimal test case: > data = load 'test.txt' as (one::two, three); > > > store data into 'test.avro' using > org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage(); -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira